Source: IE Context: China plans to start building a lunar base using soil from the moon in the next five years, with a team designing a robot named “Chinese Super Masons” to make bricks out of lunar soil. About the mission: China aims to retrieve the world’s first soil sample from the far …
Content for Mains Enrichment (CME) Source: TH NASA’s team for its upcoming Artemis II mission, includes the first woman and first African-American to be assigned to a lunar mission. The mission will be the first crewed voyage around the moon in over 50 years and is aimed at establishing a sustainable outpost on the lunar …
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GS Paper 1 Syllabus: Geography/ Awareness in space. Source: The Print Context: A team of scientists from Ahmedabad-based Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), the United States, and Japan has found a unique group of ancient lunar basaltic meteorites, suggesting a new scenario for the origin of lunar basalts. More about the findings: The Apollo, …
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