NASA has awarded Ohio state University to develop a type of GPS system for the Moon. The Lunar Astronaut Spatial Orientation and Information System (LASOIS) is designed to function much the same way as a global positioning system (GPS). This will help the astronauts to find their way around the Moon in the year 2020.

A group of The Ohio State University (OSU) researchers are working with NASA Glenn Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley, to develop the LASOIS. This is old hat for Ron Li, an OSU professor of civil and environmental engineering and geodetic science heading up the project, who was part of a team that developed software that helps NASA scientists guide the Spirit and Opportunity as they roam the Martian landscape. NASA mapped portions of Mars by comparing images taken by a high-resolution imaging science experiment (HiRISE) camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter with those snapped by Spirit and Opportunity on the Red Planet’s surface.

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