Researchers Find Hydrogen Content In Rock Samples From Apollo Mission

Researchers from NLR found hydrogen in rock samples of Apollo missions (photo: dock. NLR)

JAKARTA The Apollo mission, the astronaut landing on the Moon from the 1960s to the 1970s, carried out by the United States Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) managed to bring rock samples to Earth.

Samples taken directly from this month were submitted by NASA to researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory (NLR) for further investigation. Recently, researchers at NRL managed to reveal interesting findings.

Geologist wasteful say that samples from the Apollo mission contain hydrogen. So far, my colleagues have predicted that hydrogen arises from rain, solar wind, and cometary attacks.

"Hydrogen has the potential to be a resource that can be used directly on the lunar surface when there is a more regular or permanent installation there," said VOI from the NLR release.

If astronauts could understand how to collect hydrogen while on the Moon, space exploration might be able to run better. What's more, NASA once said that the launch of a bottle of water to the moon cost thousands of US dollars.

This sample is not taken in the south polar region of the moon, an area believed to store water. With these findings, other space agencies may be able to find other water content outside the lunar polar region.

"Thus, these new findings have important implications for the stability and persistence of hydrogen molecules in areas beyond the Moon's poles", explained capus and colleagues.

Currently, NASA is planning a second lunar landing mission, following the Apollo mission. The mission is named Artemis. They have already launched the Artemis I mission and are planning to carry out the Artemis II mission in 2024.

The peak of this mission is Artemis III where astronauts will actually be landed on the Moon. The Artemis I mission only launched an unmanned aircraft, while the Artemis II mission only orbited the moon to examine the system and technology of the aircraft to be used on the Artemis III mission.