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NASA wants the public to figure out how to ground an astronaut before they spark the lander
A new NASA prize competition offers up to $150,000 for designs that can safely neutralize the static charge an astronaut accumulates at the lunar South Pole, before that charge discharges as a spark against the lander. Here is the physics behind the problem and what solvers are being asked to invent.