There's Water On The Moon About 180 Grams Of Water In 1 Ton Of Rock Sampled By Chang'e 6

The development of China's space technologycan be said to be not easy, relying on its own efforts and developing step bystep. For example, the Beidou system, Chang'e series of projects, the Marsexploration project, the construction of the Chinese space station and so on,all of these are developed by China relying on its own efforts, independentresearch, independent layout and so on, so it is very not easy. People'sinterest in exploring the moon is increasing day by day, such as trying tounderstand that there's water on the moon.

However, with the continuous development ofChina's space technology, foreign comments on China's space technologydevelopment have also emerged, most typically from NASA, which first complainedin public about China's lack of initiative to cooperate with the United Statesand said that China's space work "lacks transparency".

Chang'e 6 preparation

In fact, after Chang'e 5, China's furtherlunar exploration project has been prepared, only many people do not know it.

And in 2022, the seventh China Space Day,China's National Space Administration once again revealed that the fourth phaseof the lunar exploration project this year also officially launched thedevelopment of engineering, China's space will also be launched one afteranother "Chang'e 6", "Chang'e 7", "Chang'e 8"."Chang'e 8" probe, to carry out mission-critical technology researchand international lunar research station construction.

What does this mean? China's Chang'e VIproject is actually in preparation, in preparation, only from the revealednews, in the end when the implementation of a new round of exploration of theChang'e series, this point has not been announced. So, the further developmentof China's lunar exploration project is indeed also in progress.

Of course, as the implementation of thelunar exploration project, the world is full of curiosity, and from the knowndiscoveries on the Moon, the future development of lunar resources may be afocus. Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that all countries in the world willestablish bases on the moon and develop resources for the moon in the future.

For example, the rare lunar substance"helium-3", once it can be developed on a large scale and refined andtransported to the Earth, may change the energy pattern of the Earth. There iswater on the moon, and other possibilities.

The rare substance "helium-3" isknown as a clean energy source, and a report issued by the Shanghai Associationfor Science and Technology states that there are about 1-5 million tons ofhelium-3 in the soil on the Moon, which could supply the energy needs of humansfor tens of thousands of years. So, this is something that is difficult to findon Earth and to develop on a large scale. We can only expect to implement it inthe future and develop helium-3 earlier to take the initiative of lunar energy.

Therefore, it is necessary to quicklyimplement Chang'e-6 project, as well as Chang'e-6, Chang'e-7, Chang'e-8 probes,etc.

What is the main task of Chang'e 6?

First of all, we should know that Chang'e 5project is the first Chinese lunar probe to implement unmanned lunar surface samplingand return, and also retrieved about 1731 grams of samples from the Moon,making a great contribution to China's exploration of the Moon. Let's justbriefly explain three points - what is Chang'e-5's contribution to lunarexploration?

First, the lunar samples brought back byChang'e-5 proved that the moon was still active in magma 1.96 billion yearsago, which "extended" the known geological life of the moon by about1 billion years and provided key scientific evidence for the evolution of themoon, a result that was not obtained by the previous Apollo program.

Secondly, through the study of Chang'e-5lunar samples, some evidence of the time of the back of the Moon was initiallyinferred, which may be 4 billion years old, that is, 4 billion years after thebasic cessation of volcanic movement.

Thirdly, the data obtained by the"Lunar Mineral Spectrometer" carried by Chang'e-5 show that there'swater on the Moon.

That's about 120 grams of water in a ton oflunar soil and 180 grams of water in a ton of rock. We now know that there'swater on the Moon.

In addition to the above three, there arealso studies on the content of various minerals and so on, so the explorationstudies of Chang'e-5 further advance the development of China's lunarexploration project.

What is Chang'e 6 going to do and whatare the tasks?

First, the implementation of Chang'e-6 willpromote the construction of space constellations. Because among the plans ofChang'e 6 is to sample the back of the moon, which requires China to carry outthe construction of space constellations.

So on this year's Space Day, Chinaannounced the construction of a constellation of lunar communication andnavigation satellites in the demonstration. This amounts to an intermittentpush for significance.

Second, real sampling, this is the mainproject of Chang'e 6, China to achieve real sampling, take back to Earth,scientists around the world to analyze, verify, this is the main goal of greatconcern.

Third, monitoring (research) of the moon'sback composition, environment, etc., these are gaps for China, after theimplementation of the Chang'e 6 mission, these problems will be solved, so thisis very significant.

This is what we see the main task ofChang'e 6, in fact, is also for a further exploration of the Moon. After thecompletion of the exploration, perhaps China's manned lunar landing plan alsohas a preliminary characterization, so we also look forward to further Chang'eproject tasks.