Probing the Origin(s) of Volatiles in the Moon and their Resource Potential

二十年前的2月1日，美国宇航局的哥伦比亚号航天飞机重返地球大气层，机上7名宇航员全部遇难。卡尔帕纳·舒拉是七名宇航员中的一名，她是第一位进入太空的印裔美国女性航空航天工程师。如今，在她不在的情况下，她的遗产以激励印度许多年轻女孩在STEM工作的形式活着。在阅读让-皮埃尔·哈里森的传记《时间的边缘》以应对新学派的空虚时，我在很小的时候就对行星科学产生了兴趣。因此，为了更多地了解地球和太阳系的形成，我决定在印度德里大学攻读地质学领域的高等教育。在我的学年里，矿物学、火成岩和变质岩石学、地貌学和地球物理学等学科帮助我更好地了解了地球及其形成的动力。随着我逐渐进入这门课程，我的研究工作主要围绕着坚硬岩石的岩石学调查。夏季在加尔瓦尔喜马拉雅地区的混合岩矿物学研究实习，让我有了岩相学和矿物化学研究的样品制备方面的第一手经验。当我研究从加赫瓦尔喜马拉雅山脉收集的样本时，我着迷于注意到岩石的不均匀性质，无论是显微镜下的还是手中的样本。我在这次实习中学到的技能后来帮助我完成了硕士对印度那加山蛇绿岩带辉长岩的岩石学、矿物化学和地球化学表征的研究工作。根据我的岩石学观察，我将样品分为块状和堆积状两种。我使用了从XRF分析中获得的大量岩石数据来对样品中存在的矿物进行成分分类。此外，使用Corel DRAW和GeoChemical Take Kit等程序绘制了从电感耦合等离子体质谱分析中获得的主要氧化物、微量元素和稀土元素数据，以便在不同的双变量地块中对样品进行地球化学特征描述。此外，我还参加了四次印度北部的实地考察，在那里我展示了我对各种地质结构的理解，观察了不同的岩性，了解了采集样本时比例尺的重要性，并学习了布伦顿罗盘和地形图在地质制图中的应用

On the first of February twenty areas ago, the re-entry of NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia into the Earth's atmosphere killed all the seven astronauts who were on board. One among the seven astronauts was Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian American Woman Aerospace Engineer to go into the Space. Today in her absence,her legacy is alive in the form of inspiration among many young girls in India to make a career in STEM. While reading her biography "The Edge of Time" by Jean-Pierre Harrison to cope with the emptiness of the new school, I developed my interest in Planetary Science at a very early age. Therefore, to learn more about the formation of the Earth and the Solar system, I decided to pursue my higher education in the field of Geology from the University of Delhi, India.During my academic years, subjects such as Mineralogy, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Geomorphology, and Geophysics helped me gain a better understanding of the Earth and the dynamic forces responsible for its formation. As I gradually progressed into the course, my research work majorly revolved around the petrological investigations of the hard rocks. A summer internship on mineralogical studies of Migmatites from Garhwal Himalayan region gave me first hands-on experience of sample preparation for petrographic and mineral chemical studies. While I studied the samples collected from the Garhwal Himalayas, I was fascinated to notice the heterogeneous nature of the rock, both microscopically and in hand samples. The skills I gained during this internship were later helpful in accomplishing my masters'research work on petrographic, mineral chemical, and geochemical characterization of Gabbros from the Naga Hills Ophiolite Belt of India. Based on my petrographical observations, I classified the samples into Massive and Cumulate Gabbros. I used the bulk rock data obtained from XRF analysis for the compositional categorisation of the mineral present in the samples. Further, programmes like COREL DRAW and Geochemical took kit were employed to plot the major oxides, trace element and REE data obtained from ICP-MS analysis for geochemical characterisation of the samples in various bivariant plots. Besides these, I have participated in four field trips across the northern India where I demonstrated my understanding about various geological structures, observed different lithologies, understood the importance of scale while collecting samples and learnt the utilisation of Brunton compass and topographic maps in geological mapping