'That has always piqued everybody’s imagination: What is on the other side of the moon?' said Gordon Osinski, the principal investigator for the Canadian Lunar Rover Mission.
The discovery of ice could be a stepping-stone to further explorations of the solar system, including missions staffed by humans, said Chris Herd, a scientific investigator on the mission and University of Alberta planetary geologist..Herd, who has previously worked on the Mars rover mission, said frozen water “can be extracted and used as a resource for the astronauts to survive.
“The costs of the missions have come down, relatively speaking, to what they were in the past,” Sallaberger said. “In the ’60s, everything was government funded.” Canadensys would be building a robust rover that could handle extreme temperature swings — shifting from -200 C at night to more than 100 C during the day. It would also be able to tackle high radiation and jagged lunar surfaces while continuing to send data throughout the months it spends on the moon.
Scientists will not only be looking for solid water, but would be investigating the composition of the moon’s rocky surface, characterizing the radiation environment and taking high-resolution images, Sallaberger said.Advertisement 6While Canada won’t be the first country to make a landing on the far side of the moon, it could be the first to explore the south pole of Earth’s natural satellite, believed to hold ice water in the permanently shadowed craters.
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