China Moon Mission to Find Water Ice: Unlike Anything NASA's Done
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China Moon mission to find water ice: unlike anything NASA's done
How do you explore a place where the Sun never shines? China’s space program will soon embark on one of the most innovative lunar exploration missions in recent years. We’ve known for nearly two decades that some form of water exists on the Moon. What we still don’t know is exactly how much accessible water […] The post China Moon mission to find water ice: unlike anything NASA’s done appeared first on Asia Times.
There are places in the solar system where the darkness does not last a few hours, not a few days, not even a winter. There are craters of the Moon in which the sunlight has not entered for billions of years. Inside, the temperature can drop to levels close to absolute zero and any material that has been trapped there can remain practically frozen from the early stages of lunar history. China wants to enter one of them. The Chang’e-7 mission, on…
HAPPENING! China Built a Robot to Jump Into the Moon’s Darkest Place
China’s Chang’e-7 Moon mission is heading toward one of the most mysterious places on the Moon: the permanently shadowed craters near the lunar south pole. These regions can remain in darkness for enormous periods of time and may preserve deposits of lunar water ice. But reaching them is extremely difficult, which is why China has developed an unusual hopping robot capable of exploring terrain that conventional lunar rovers may struggle to acces…
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