JAKARTA – The Apollo mission, the landing of astronauts on the Moon in the 1960s to 1970s, carried out by the United States Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) succeeded in bringing rock samples to Earth.
This sample, taken directly from the Moon, was handed over by NASA to researchers at Naval Research Laboratory (NLR) for further research. Recently, researchers at NRL managed to reveal interesting findings.
Geologist Katherine Burgess said that samples from the Apollo missions contained hydrogen. So far, Burgess and his colleagues predict that hydrogen appears from rain, solar wind and comet attacks.
“Hydrogen has the potential to become a resource that can be used directly on the lunar surface when there are more regular or permanent installations there,” said Burgess, quoted BUTTER from the NLR release.
If astronauts could understand how to collect hydrogen while on the Moon, space exploration might be able to run better. What’s more, NASA once said that launching a bottle of water to the moon would cost thousands of US dollars.
This sample was not taken in the south polar region of the moon, an area believed to store water. With this finding, other space agencies may be able to find other water content outside the moon’s polar regions.
“Thus, these new findings have important implications for the stability and persistence of molecular hydrogen in regions beyond the lunar poles,” explained Burgess and colleagues.
Currently, NASA is planning a second lunar landing mission, following on from the Apollo mission. This mission is named Artemis. They have carried out the Artemis I mission and plan to carry out the Artemis II mission in 2024.
The culmination of this mission is Artemis III where astronauts will actually land on the Moon. The Artemis I mission only launched unmanned aircraft, while the Artemis II mission only orbited the moon to check the systems and technology of the aircraft that will be used in the Artemis III mission.
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2023-11-23 14:05:00
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