To help prepare astronauts for future missions the German Aerospace Center has opened the new LUNA analog facility.
This recreation of the moon on earth will help astronauts like Matthias Maurer train for the harsh conditions they will encounter at the Moon’s south pole.
Watch the full RAZOR episode on how the discovery of water on the moon has been a catalyst for a new era of space exploartion on our YouTube channel - just look for RAZOR science show.
This recreation of the moon on earth will help astronauts like Matthias Maurer train for the harsh conditions they will encounter at the Moon’s south pole.
Watch the full RAZOR episode on how the discovery of water on the moon has been a catalyst for a new era of space exploartion on our YouTube channel - just look for RAZOR science show.
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00:00To help prepare astronauts for future missions, the German Aerospace Center has opened its
00:07new Luna facility.
00:09This recreation of the moon on Earth will help astronauts like Matthias Maurer train
00:14for the harsh conditions they will encounter at the South Pole.
00:19And so stepping into Luna in the morning, I see all this and I think, okay, how will
00:25it be when humans will walk again on the moon?
00:29You see rocks, you see the sand, you see a relief, and the light conditions as on the
00:35moon.
00:36And since we will be flying to the South Pole area, the light will be very low on the horizon,
00:41and that's what we have here.
00:44In the future, we want to take samples, samples where we expect that frozen water will be
00:49mingled and mixed with the sand.
00:52So we can drill into frozen sand here in Luna, and nobody else on planet Earth can do this.
00:59NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology