Vladimir Surdin "We must penetrate the cosmic underground!

Vladimir Surdin "We must penetrate the cosmic underground!"

April 15, 7:00 p.m.

Academy 28

What is the lecture about?

The most promising places to search for life beyond Earth and to build extraterrestrial habitable stations are caves on planets, their moons, asteroids, and comets.

Reasons:

• In caves, living organisms are protected from cosmic radiation.
• Caves experience the least daily temperature fluctuations, which can reach hundreds of degrees on the surface.
• Caves have high humidity, and water is necessary for life.

Caves have already been discovered on Mars and other habitable bodies, but they have not yet been explored because there are no caving robots. They need to be created, and this work has already begun. New, unconventional ideas are needed to study space underground!

Who is telling us this?

Vladimir Surdin, candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, senior researcher at the P. K. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, associate professor at the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University. Winner of the Belyaev Prize and the Enlightener Prize.