The Chinese Rover Yutu-2 on the Moon
With -157ºC, the China robot should prepare the way for the preparation of the necessary environment for human survival on the moon.
China’s Chang’e-7 mission wants to land the Chinese on the moon 5 years from now. It now wants to send a robot to the natural satellite of the Earth in search of water, more properly in the “south pole” – the farthest side of us on the moon.
Last year, Chinese scientists already found water on soil samples from the Lunar Chang’e-5 probe, it remembers, and NASA and India’s spacecraft had already detected it.
But now the mission is different: seek, through a “flying detector” whetherthat scientists believe it exists in enough to support astronauts who in the future go to the moon to investigate it.
“There are some very deep caves at the southern hub of the moon and we think there may be water there,” he said Wu Weirenchief designer of China’s lunar exploration project. “We hope that the flying detector can perform on -site inspections one or two caves after landing. ”
The Chang’e-7 Mission is scheduled to begin in 2026, and aims to perform the most detailed study of the South Lunar pole, using an orbit, a landerone rover and the flying detector.
And in an almost human movement, the robot is able to fold the legs at the time of landing on the moon, the project responsible for the project.
They also explain that the device should do at least Three jumps of sun -illuminated areas For shadow craters to perform detailed analyzes and possibly determine the location, quantity and distribution of ice in these places.
One of those responsible, Tang Yuhuaexplains that the ice of the moon is formed in dark and very cold zonesthat the sun does not reach due to the slope of the moon axis. temperatures can reach –157ºC.
Atmospheric conditions will test robot’s abilities: “Working for a long time in these circumstances is a great challenge,” says the expert.
