The agency has two new tools to explore these mysterious features. 🧐
has the chief goals of sending astronauts to establish the first long-term presence on the Moon and learning what is necessary to send the first astronauts to Mars. But it’s also planning to do so much more than that.Lunar Vulkan Imaging and Spectroscopy Explorer and the to the Moon in order to explore the mysterious Gruithuisen Domes, geological features that have puzzled scientists for years.published by the agency on Thursday.
“The two selected studies will address important scientific questions related to the Moon” Joel Kearns, the deputy associate administrator for exploration in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said in the press release. “The first will study geologic processes of early planetary bodies that are preserved on the Moon by investigating a rare form of lunar volcanism.
Lunar-VISE will explore the summit of one of the Gruithuisen Domes over the course of 10 days to uncover how these domes, suspected to have been formed by a sticky magma rich in silica similar in composition to granite, were formed without the presence of liquid water or plate tectonics. This has been a long-standing mystery for space scientists.
Meanwhile, LEIA, a small CubeSat-based device, will provide biological research on the Moon by delivering the yeast an important model of human biology, to the lunar surface and studying its response to radiation and lunar gravity. The data this mission collects will complement previously existing information from other biological studies to help scientists figure out how partial gravity and actual deep-space radiation influence biological systems.
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