651699 external_news 1634227070 1634227070 NASA’s BIG (Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-Changing) Ideas Challenge, a competition for undergraduates and graduate students to brainstorm away problems for the space agency, was dedicated to lunar dust mitigation for the 2021 version. A team of engineering students — Varun Bose, John Fitton, Zhen Liu, Dicky Silitonga, Kristoffer (Kris) Sjolund, and Jeffery Zhang — came up with a hybrid brush, which uses both an electrodynamic system (EDS) and ultraviolet (UV) technology to keep dust from building up on lunar spacesuits. One of the team's advisors is Thomas Orlando, professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, who also leads the Radiation Effects on Volatiles and Exploration of Asteroids and Lunar Surfaces (REVEALS) team.

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