Above: A molten pool of cast basalt created at the Colorado School of Mines. Credit: Kyla Edison. A former PISCES intern and technician is forging new research to help develop infrastructure beyond Earth. Kyla Edison, a Kauai native and University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo...
Above: PISCES geologist Kyla Edison descends into a lava tube on the lower slope of Mauna Loa during an EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity) as part of a simulated lunar mission led by the European Space Agency last month. Credit: EMMIHS-III/HI-SEAS. Crew members suit up...
Above: Summer-Dawn Chamberlain (left), a STARS program graduate, works alongside PISCES Geologist Kyla Edison to understand how basalt grain size data can be translated into visual formats. A Waiākea High School student who attended the STARS (STEM Aerospace Research...
Last month, PISCES’ research in In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) was featured in a weekly space exploration and spaceflight engineering podcast, The Orbital Mechanics. The episode featured geologist Kyla Edison discussing her work in basalt sintering and how it...
PISCES Geology & Materials Science technicians Kyla Edison and Kye Harford (shown above) have been researching various basalt sintering methods for novel uses on Earth and other planets. Their current focus is tile production using basalt of varying grain sizes to...
