How to pronounce “simulant” in English

And the proposed mission demonstrates in situ resource utilization.And also in our simulant test bed, we're going to be working this spring with some students who are working with the swamp works at KSC, Kennedy Space Center,

another place more Drilling in the Rockyard you can see here we actually took one of thosecrucibles that we had doped with lunar simulant and actually buried it in the soil uh that is not going to be at theright temperature we're in an atmospheric environment and so forth but we're trying to practice things like actually positioning the Rover over an

And the proposed mission demonstrates in situ resource utilization.So they'll be actually doing some testing in our simulant test bed there.

But as early as the 1870s, scientists have tried to get around those long, complex, geological processes by making their own gems.Imitation gems, known as simulants, are made of materials that only look like certain gems.Think: glass cut into the shape of a diamond.

And it's also chosen for its geological similarity to Mars.So actually, the Johnson Space Center Mars Regolith Simulant, a.k.a., fake Mars dirt, is mined about 20 miles from here.So the Hab itself, it has about 1,200 square feet of space, 1,000 feet usable.

OK. And at Ames we have a couple of facilities that we share as well.There's a regolith test bed where we have eight tons of simulant of lunar material.And we have little rovers that run around in this yard.

I mean, who wouldn't? If it were me, I mean, my colon would be like, you know, sorry boss, 10am absolute latest I can do for you. So, this is why at NASA Ames, there is an engineerand part of his job was to design a very high fidelity fecal simulant. So now, no poor guy from Waste Management Systems has to go ride the Vomit Comet, on the toilet, and try togo in 22 seconds. So this is a very long-winded, rambling way of saying that everything gets simulated in the most entertaining ways. Let's see, they also do--the psychological elements

And the proposed mission demonstrates in situ resource utilization.Exploration Uplink, Yvonne talked about our robot rovers out in our lunar simulant test bed.