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the european space agency is working to take humans beyond low-earth orbit and
deeper into the cosmos our next destination on this journey is the moon
the nineteen sixties and seventies were an incredible era for Space Exploration
the range emissions from the United States took close-up images of the moon
before eventually impacting the surface NASA survey missions demonstrated a
controlled soft landing at the surface of the Moon and tested the properties of
lunar soil to prepare for future human missions a series of Soviet Landers and
Rovers visited a number of locations performing scientific investigations
driving across the surface and returning samples to earth but the pinnacle of
this period of exploration was Apollo and the arrival of humans at the surface
of another solar system body for the first and only time in history
looking back now though we see that only a tiny fraction of the moon surface has
been explored or on the side of the Moon the phases the earth and in a region
close to the equator
we've also discovered that all of the samples we have returned to Earth from
an unusual region with a complex and exotic chemistry of potassium phosphor a
rare earth elements such as thorium the vast majority of the moon has yet to be
explored including the entire far side one thing that we can say for certain is
that if we want to understand the moon then we need to go back there now after
decades of waiting on our modern missions from around the world including
isa smart one have returned to explore the moon from orbit looking down from
above these missions are providing a wealth of new data bringing a new
understanding and raising new questions they are giving us a global insight and
preparing for new missions to the surface led by China's changa three and
the next wave emissions to the surface where might they go the next destination
will be unlike anywhere we have been before the extreme and alien landscape
of the lunar south pole here we find areas of permanent darkness and extreme
cold where water ice and other chemicals can become trapped
and as we come up from these loans we see towering Peaks basking in near
constant light on these polar mountains the Sun rarely sets below the horizon
providing the potential for near-continuous solar power and a
spectacular view over the rugged and created landscape below in 2009 the l
cross mission blasted water and other chemicals out of a permanently . crater
in the south polar region allowing it to be observed by nearby spacecraft for the
very first time we also know that there are nearby locations with similar cold
conditions is there water here too if so how much is there
where did it come from and what can it teach us about the origins of water and
life forming chemistry on earth this water may have been delivered by comets
and asteroids impact into the surface over billions of years it may even have
been created at the surface of the Moon we now know the protons thrown out by
the Sun in the solar wind arrived at the lunar surface here they react with
oxygen and minerals to create a thin layer of water these water molecules can
be lifted by the sun's heat before falling again to the surface
over time these particles move to the polar regions where they're trapped by
the cold conditions
and as we stand at the pole with the earth interview we can . our antennas to
the sky to search for faint signals from deep out in space but radio noise from
the earth is too loud and blocks out many cosmic radio sources but as we move
over the horizon the earth sets out of you
the noise disappears and a new kind of radio sky emerges we see our galaxy and
the planet has never before and beyond a quiet radio hum a signal from the cosmic
dark ages more than 13 billion years ago when the first cosmic structures are
formed and now beneath this the moon as we see it today scarred by craters
formed by billions of years of impacts and the largest and the oldest of these
the south pole AK basin formed by a powerful impact around 4 billion years
ago
many believe that its formation marks the start of a dramatic . of bombardment
onto the earth and the moon and era called the Cataclysm this era is
recorded on the moon scarred surface and its end coincides with the appearance of
the earliest observe traces of life on Earth
in the coming years we will see explorers of the lunar poles exploiting
the extended Sun Life of power and performing research to benefit life on
Earth and to understand our place in the universe
this will begin with small robotic missions to understand the environment
improve new technologies to pave the way for the future we will then move on to
increasing the ambitious missions with humans and robots working together
learning to live and work at the surface and performing new and important
scientific research this new exploration will be achieved not in competition as
in the past but through peaceful international cooperation
eventually we will see a sustained infrastructure for research and
exploration where humans will live and work for prolonged periods here we will
put into practice the lessons of years on the International Space Station to
establish a facility akin to those that we see in Antarctica today in the future
the moon can become a place where the nations of the world can come together
to understand our common origins to build a common future and to share a
common journey beyond a place where we can learn to move onwards into the solar
system
and perhaps in the future at a sunbath speak of the lunar south pole at the
edge of a crater we will learn to access and utilize resources from deep below in
the dark zooming in closer and closer we see water ice molecules trapped in the
cold a source of hydrogen and oxygen essential for sustaining human life and
for rocket fuel fuel to propel us further into the solar system and on to
the next destination of our journey into the cosmos
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