What are you working on at the moment?

What are you working on at the moment?

Colin Pillinger (Professor of Planetary Sciences) gives expert video advice on: How was Beagle born?; Why did you launch the Beagle mission?; What is Beagle II? and more...

I'm working with a guy from NASA about the possibility of adapting [unintelligible] technology for look to water on the moon as a resource for people being sent to the moon, as you don't want to have to carry water for a lunar base. So, if we could tap into some lunar water, that would save us a lot of logistics. So we're working on that which might be of benefit to NASA. Mars is still on the agenda because the experiment I was going to do is not being done and nobody's planning to do it, therefore I have to convince somebody. I'll carry on doing that. And we're adapting, or using our skills, to see what we can do in clinical medicine. And the skills are not just restricted to clinical medicine. There are other things that you can use. Small, portable, rugged mass spectrometers. So we're looking at some of those uses.