The team members hope to raise the 500 million pounds needed to realize the project through donations from the public.
British scientists have decided to set goals for the recently announced Lunar One mission. This is what the BBC reports.
The researchers plan to dig to a depth of 100 meters below the surface of the moon, study its geology and assess whether the conditions for establishing a manned base and an observatory are met.
The focus of the spacecraft's interest will be the Shackleton crater, which happens to be located at the south pole of the moon, where the impact crater is the deepest in the solar system (about 12 km deep). The impact over 4 billion years ago.
Due to its location and topographic conditions, this crater is much more shaded than areas in the North Pole. Such craters are cold traps that may preserve evidence from the early days of the solar system.
So far, 50 spacecraft have been launched to the moon (orbiters and landers), including six manned Apollo spacecraft, but there is still much to learn, said Prof. Ian Crawford, the science advisor to the Lunar and Wan Project.
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This morning in light of the attack in Australia and the insistence of the democratic legislatures of the world to march to their own destruction, does anyone think that Islam will take over the world because of the stupidity of the world is an illusory possibility.
Right. This is a good project for the British government whose funds come from the public. Experience shows that by correctly routing projects it is possible to get a partial refund of the costs. If every module that is developed for the space industry, is defined instead of a civilian satellite application, it is a profitable matter. The superpowers are doing today what they did in the past in the continents of the earth: settlement. There is a chance that in the distant future the earth will be a human dump, unpleasant to say. Daesh and their ilk will live here. It refers to those who insist on ending their lives by the sword. On another planet the development of culture will continue because it will be cheaper than here.
And maybe Islam will also spread to other stars out of the recognition of the potential. They like to apply Muhammad to the whole universe. On the wings of imagination, everything is possible and you can reach anywhere.
Miracles, leave football, what about smoking, drinking alcohol, etc. The public spends many times more on them than on science.
anonymous
It must be more effective than football... are you proposing to abolish sports funding? craftsmanship? religion?
The amount is reasonable, but why should the public finance it? How is this more important than other goals whose benefits are more obvious?
500 million? So much?