Video: NASA finds ice on the lunar surface
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
"Most of the ice is in the shadow of craters near the poles, where temperatures do not rise above -250 degrees Fahrenheit (-156.5 degrees Celsius). Sunlight never reaches these parts of the surface due to the slightly tilted axis of the Moon's rotation.", - said in a statement.
The team was led by Shuai Li, who works at the Universities of Hawaii and Brown, and included Richard Elfic of the Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley. The scientists used NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, which helped them prove that water ice had been found on the moon's surface, the post explains.
It is noted that the M3 device is installed on the Chandrayan-1 satellite, launched by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in 2008. Its main goal was to confirm the presence of solid ice on the lunar surface. He collected data on the inherent reflective properties of ice, and could also directly determine the special way in which ice molecules absorbed infrared radiation, which makes it possible to distinguish between water in a liquid or gaseous state and solid ice.
In 2009, NASA announced that water was detected in samples of the lunar surface obtained during the Apollo mission in the 1970s. Then scientists calculated that one ton of the moon's surface can contain up to 946 milliliters of water. Researchers later said there was evidence that pointed to the local origin of water on the moon.
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