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Measuring Moon dust
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and others have developed a new way to study and measure moon dust.
Using an X-ray nano computed tomography (XCT) technique, researchers measured the 3D shapes of lunar particles as small as 400nm in length. The goal is to find out how these shapes impact the optical scattering characteristics of lunar dust on the Moon.
These measurements could provide more insights in terms of the Moon and its color and brightness. “This in turn might help improve tracking of weather patterns and other phenomena by satellite cameras that use the Moon as a calibration source,” according to NIST.
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China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-30 06:58 Share CLOSE China launches the core capsule of its space station at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province on Thursday morning, April 29, 2021. [Photo by Guo Wenbin / Provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
China successfully launched the core module of its space station on Thursday, giving humankind a new foothold in space.
The space station will become a common outpost for space-faring countries to explore the universe through cooperation. Tianhe, the name of the core module, means Harmony of the Heavens in Chinese, and it conveys China s sincere efforts to promote mutual trust and peace through international partnerships aboard the space station.
CGTN: Tianhe lifts off China s space station ambition
BEIJING, April 29. /PRNewswire/ The construction of China s own space station is underway, with the core module Tianhe, which means heavenly harmony, sent into space Thursday, kicking off a series of key launch missions that aim to complete the construction of the station by the end of 2022.
Tianhe was carried into space by a Long March-5B Y2 carrier rocket from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of south China s Hainan Province. It is the first of 11 missions to build and supply the space station.
Tianhe will act as the foundational module for China s first space station in low-Earth orbit named Tiangong, which means heavenly palace in Chinese.