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According to Nature, an Indian agency. ISRO space research is preparing to land in 2018 Moon your rover as part of the Chandrayan-2 mission, that is, join ranks of countries that have visited the Earth’s natural satellite.
Recall that India already made such an attempt in 2008, launching a space research vehicle to the moon as part of Chandrayan-1 mission. Cube-shaped device reaches lunar orbit and even did some work, for example, in one of the craters found “magmatic water.” However, on November 14 of that year, part apparatus when trying to reach the surface of the moon, crashed, and another part of it was simply lost in the satellite’s orbit.
Three unmanned vehicles will be launched as part of the new space mission apparatus:
- the orbital module will explore the moon from space;
- the landing module must fulfill its function rover delivery to the satellite surface;
- rover lunar rover, which will have to explore the lunar soil, taking measurements at a depth of several tens of meters, and the lunar surface running on it for several days.
The whole mission is designed for two weeks, just for the period when The moon makes a complete revolution around the earth. Planned budget for this project is about 93 million US dollars. In addition, ISRO India is currently working on the Aditya program, as part of which it is planned to launch the XPoSat in order to study Of the sun.
After such serious space statements from India, individual space researchers have drawn the attention of supporters theories of a flat Earth for another inconsistency in their statement: why is an increasing number of countries seeking space, investing in the space industry is a lot of money if it simply does not exist, as it does not neither the sun nor the moon, and so on?
By the way, absurd ideas are born recently, like mushrooms after the rain, which is caused, of course, in the first place Internet accessibility for every nerd. For instance, self-taught scientist who posted quite funny material on YouTube video hosting under the nickname RichieFromBoston (see below), claims the distance to the moon is only 4.7 miles (seven and a half kilometers). The blogger made such a conclusion on based on image analysis of the craters of the Moon and neighboring buildings at the same optical zoom through a Nikon P900 camera. And although this caused obvious bewilderment for many users video hosting, which, for example, wondered, but what about passenger planes fly at an altitude of 11 kilometers, without touching The moon, such an absurd theory immediately found its supporters.
By the way, the fact that India was going to fly to the moon and the sun does not cool the ardor of supporters of the theory of a flat earth and others pseudo-scientists: they easily blame it all on the conspiracy of the world government, which supposedly controls all countries, and therefore able to make India also engage in space hoaxes, like NASA, ESA and Roskosmos …
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