Korea's first lunar exploration satellite, KPLO, Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter was successfully launched on August 5th, 2022. After flying toward the L1 Lagrangian point after launch, KPLO began its first maneuver to enter lunar orbit on December 16, and finally entered lunar mission orbit on December 26th 2022. It is equipped with a high-resolution camera LUTI, Lunar Terrain Imager developed by Korea Aerospace Research Institute. Image Calibration and Analysis Subsystem, ICAS is a pipeline to process lunar images of LUTI based on ISIS, Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers developed and distributed by USGS Astrogeology Science Center for NASA. The LUTI TM file downloaded from the PRM, Payload Receiving Module, is processed automatically/manually in the ICAS. ICAS can generate LUTI　level products defined to be Raw, Partially Processed, Calibrated, and Derived (Mosaics and Stereo DEMs). The LUTI　level products can be accessed through KPDS, KARI Planetary Data System. This presentation shows some Lunar special images taken by LUTI during the transfer phase and normal mission phase and also deals with the LUTI level product generation process and archiving data for public release.

Being a female professor alone in Korea is considered quite unique, meanwhile, being a female, Foreign AND Engineering Professor can be “super” minority. In the first part of this invited talk, I will introduce my path and personal experience in becoming a female engineer in Canada, then as a female and foreign professor in engineering school in both Japan and Korea. Amid various culture difference and academic background, I am currently enjoying the challenges and potential to grow more as a female professor in south Korea.
In the second part of this invited talk, I will also briefly introduce my current academic research interested in developing seawater-based electrocatalysts. Compared to conventional alkaline seawater hydrolysis and metal-air batteries, seawater-based electrochemical devices are promising large-scale energy storage devices and are highly compatible with offshore ocean locations or large-scale maritime applications. However, the complexity of the seawater components, in particular, chlorine anions (Cl-) blocks the metal surface and hinders the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER). In particular, platinum or metal-based electrocatalysts often suffer a severe reduction of the catalytic activity due to the strong adsorption effect of the Cl- on the catalyst surface. As a result, the ORR/OER electrocatalyst /active sites must be prevented from Cl- adsorption during reactions. For instant, our group has designed a negative-charged surface of Nitrogen-doped graphene (NG) coated on cobalt/Iron electrocatalyst to repel Cl- selectively in seawater electrolyte. Our group employed plasma engineering to design and anchor transition metal based (Co, Fe) nanoparticles on a negative charge-mediated surface composed of nitrogen-doped graphene (NG). The strong negative-charged surface can successfully repel Cl-, therefore effectively protected the catalytic active sites from the seawater electrolyte.