NU Team Announced as Finalist in 2019 Mars Ice Challenge
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A group of Northeastern students led by ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir was selected as one of ten finalists in NASA’s 2019 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Special Edition: Moon to Mars Ice and Prospecting Challenge for their project “Northeastern University Prospecting Underground Distilling Liquid Extractor (NU-PUDLE)”. The competition will take place at NASA’s Langley Research Center on June 3-7, 2019. The team was selected as the winner in the 2018 Mars Ice Challenge.