A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off early Sunday, boosting a commercially developed Japanese moon lander into space for a three-month voyage to touchdown in a 54-mile-wide crater.
Heralded by window-rattling sonic booms, the slender booster descended on a brilliant jet of flame, deploying four landing legs a moment before settling to a picture-perfect landing on a concrete pad. It was SpaceX's 155th successful booster recovery, its 27th in Florida and its second in three days.
Once on the surface, a small 22-pound rover known as Rashid, built by United Arab Emirates, will roll down a ramp and onto the surface to study the geology of the region, soil properties, dust movement and the electrically charged plasma environment. "It's an honor to become the first launch and the first landing on the lunar surface," Hakamada said in an interview with CBS News."However, this is not our goal. Our goal is to create a sustainable ecosystem.
Rock and soil will simply reflect and scatter the laser light, but ice will absorb it. NASA is especially interested in probing permanently shadowed craters near the moon's south pole where earlier satellite observations detected chemical signatures that could indicate the presence of ice.
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