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Post by lowell on Jan 10, 2022 18:00:04 GMT -6
China’s Chang’e-5 probe proves presence of water on Moon: Report Beijing: There is as much as 120 parts per million of water (as hydroxyl and/or H2O) in the lunar regolith, new data from the lander of China’s Chang’e-5 lunar probe has revealed.
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Post by James T. Kirk on Jan 10, 2022 18:40:35 GMT -6
I wish they would detect those golf balls Alan Shepard left.
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Post by lowell on Jan 10, 2022 21:14:19 GMT -6
It seems odd that this Chinese rover found water in the regolith that NASA missed. A solar device could easily separate the water from the regolith by heating the soil and then cooling the gas produced. (in a pair of closed containers joined by a closeable tube. An earleir rover showed that a plant could be grown using the regolith and water and the sun. Farming on the Moon, a new enterprise.
The Chang'e 5 had a number of different components. One component stayed in orbit, the component that went to the moon surface had two components the lander and an ascension vehicle that returned the lunar samples to the component in orbit. Then the ascension vehicle returned to the Moon to help limit space debris. The orbiter returned to Earth but it too, and two components, a lander component brought the lunar samples to Earth in Mongolia and the other component traveled to Lagrange point 1 where it is parked for future missions.
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