Adding to its space program's growing list of achievements. 🧐 engineering
The new breakthrough provides yet another important milestone for the CNSA, which is ambitiously closing the gap between itself and the world's two historic space superpowers, the U.S. and Russia. For years, thanks to a number of orbital observations and sample measurements, it has been known that water exists on the Moon. In fact, last year a that can mine ice on the Moon to provide future lunar habitats with water and oxygen.
Until now, according to China's space program, water has never been detected on the Moon by a rover or lunar probe. , researchers detailed how the lunar soil at the probe's landing site contains less than 120 parts per million water or 120 grams of water per tonne. A nearby vesicular rock, meanwhile, carries 180 ppm. All of these readings are much drier than what you would see on Earth, though they do confirm water content in the lander's vicinity.
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