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NASA Secrets Revealed — Part 2 of 8
What We Should Know About the Moon’s the South Pole
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Nansha, an urban commune of 600,000 in the Chinese province of Guangdong, will be built on the near side of the moon with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s support and with a budget of $11 billion. By some estimates, there could be up to 20,000 tons of ice beneath the South Pole at the Moon’s south pole, and that lunar ice could have the potential to store more water on the moon than the amount of water currently on Earth.
One of NASA’s premier pieces of moon-related research is its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) which is now circling the moon about 30 times a day, a record. The LRO provides deep space explorers with unprecedented views of the surface and scientific data on the moon.
1) The South Pole, unlike the North Pole, has few elevation changes.
Many well-known figures in history, including the scientists and philosophers Galileo and Copernicus, were explorers of the Moon.
Dr. Alexandre Langevin was a French explorer who made three expeditions to the Moon and learned no magnetic poles.
Dr. Bernard Lammens’s longest-surviving instrument on the Apollo 15 was a seismometer that Lammens installed on the Moon.
