NASA’nın Ay Buz Küpü – Artemis’i Fırlatmaya Hazır Ay Gözlem Küpleri

ay buz küpleri[{” attribute=””>NASA’s water-scouting CubeSat, is now poised to hitch a ride to lunar orbit. Although it is not much bigger than a shoe box, Lunar IceCube’s data will have an outsized impact on lunar science.

The satellite is integrated into the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and ready to journey to the Moon as part of the uncrewed Artemis I mission, launching this year.

Lunar IceCube will orbit the Moon and use a spectrometer to investigate lunar ice. Earlier missions already revealed water ice on the Moon, but Lunar IceCube will further NASA’s knowledge about lunar ice dynamics.

Scientists are especially interested in the absorption and release of water from the regolith — the Moon’s rocky and dusty surface. With Lunar IceCube investigating this process, NASA can map these changes as they occur on the Moon.

NASA’nın Lunar IceCube görevi, Artemis I görevinde ikincil bir yük olarak Ay’a seyahat edecek.Kredi: NASA’nın Goddard Uzay Uçuş Merkezi

Lunar IceCube, Ay’ı çevreleyen atmosfere benzeyen çok ince hacim olan ekzosferi de inceleyecek. Araştırmacılar, Ay’daki suyun ve diğer malzemelerin dinamiklerini anlayarak, gelecekte bir kaynak olarak kullanımını etkileyebilecek olan ay buzundaki mevsimsel değişiklikleri tahmin edebilecekler.

Tüm bunlar, yalnızca 31 lb (14 kg) ağırlığındaki verimli ve uygun maliyetli CubeSat’tan gelecek. IceCube Moon birkaç tanesinden sadece biri küpler Artemis I’de aya yapılacak bir geziyi yakalayın. Bu küçük uydular, gelecekteki Artemis görevleriyle birlikte, ayda yaşama ve çalışma konusundaki bilgimizi artıracak ve sonunda insan kaşifleri[{” attribute=””>Mars.

Lunar IceCube is funded by NASA’s Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships program, or NextSTEP, in support of NASA’s Advanced Exploration Systems Division within the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate. The Lunar IceCube mission is led by Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky; NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California; NASA’s Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility in Fairmont, West Virginia; and Busek Space Propulsion and Systems in Natick, Massachusetts.