ah, what secrets lie behind these walls? discover new adventures in 360 degrees. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. he w world heritage 360. get the out now. the earth, a huge storehouse of rule materials, even the ocean floor is being mindful, rare earth demand is insatiable, but the environment is suffering. private companies and space agencies are looking for new opportunities as resources on earth. i'll find eyes such as exploiting the moon, the us only natural satellite. is there going to be a luna gold rush? ah, hello and welcome to tomorrow to day d w signs program. the moon

overseen planet earth is some 384000 kilometers away. several new missions are due to start in the near future. the lunar orbit. so platform gateway, for example, is set to become the starting point for journeys to the moon. the space station will orbit the moon and serve as an intermediate station for mand flights as part of novices ottoman space program. the autumn is 3 mission will be the 1st manned moon landings since apollo. 1750 years ago. the russian space. probe, luna, $25.00 will concentrate on the moon. south pole. india is also planning a lina polar exploration mission with chandra. yon 3 mankind and the moon. unexciting relationship. but let the moon tell her story. ah, let me introduce is myself the moon at your service?

compared to other celestial bodies? i might be considered insignificant. my surface is gray and full of scars craters and dust. but what does it matter? i have the most beautiful partner in the solar system. ah, the earth. what a magnificent planets. ah. and so dynamic, it's oceans have created an abundance of diverse life forms. where else can that be found in the solar system? lose more than it is in a truly the moon in the earth are a matched pair. they interact together. they don't orbit the sun separately. they're held together by gravity. and the center of gravity at the center of the earth revolves around the sun. so in effect, they belong together to some ah,

my orbit around earth takes $27.00 and a half days. and i do it in a way that the earth always sees the same side of me. so one of my days is as long as 14 days on earth, i been observing the hustle and bustle down on earth for billions of years now. and i'm a bit surprised by you humans. you've only populated the earth for a brief time now and have managed to change its face quite drastically. ah ah ah, my face on the other hand hasn't changed much over time. oh, i'm like an archive. a window into the past. ah, no atmosphere confines me. no wind ravages my mountains. no rivers gouge into my

rocks. but tiny meteorites do constantly rain down from space pelting my face, turning my rocks into dust. ah, my surface is covered with mountains of light colored rock and large, smooth dark surfaces which were created much later. you earthlings love to see images in these landscapes, such as a human face or the silhouette of a rabbit. some of you even claim to see the navel of the moon, but that is actually a very deep crater, almost 90 kilometers in diameter. it's one of my brightest craters, and in the middle, a mountain peak rises, 1600 meters into the sky, around the impact craters. rim is a mountain range as high as the alps. and you call that a belly button. without me, there would be no tides,

no ebb and flow. the earth would revolve faster and faster and the days would get shorter. but then again, you probably wouldn't be there. i'm the one who gives earth it stability and the etiquette monitor. and if the earth would have no moon, then its axis would level back and forth on jupiter would pull from the one side and the sun from the other. the poor 0 would tilt and the poles would melt in the ice age would begin in the sahara discussing everything would be out of whack. a little fun and the climate crises will be much, much worse, less than what we've seen so far as this was her be 2nd. oh, for you, earth dwellers. i am the brightest object in your night sky. and i am always there for you. like a good friend, wolves, how at me and other species of animals use my light for orientation. you humans wax romantic about me. i wake longing for the unknown,

the mysterious power of the unattainable. oh and run. but in july of 1969, you decided to reach for the stars quite literally. for the 1st time you set off on a journey to visit me. it didn't even take you 10 years to develop the necessary technology and practice all the maneuvers except for the landing bits. good right on it. i mean, no one could tell you what to expect. will you be able to land safely, or will you sink into my dusty surface and capsize? it was a flight into the unknown. gar gaudy beer, blue and it won't uncall when you look

at the moon. when you look at an apollo film, then you see that the landing was just a very small pin break. i don't know if the moon even noticed the astronauts were there. and if the minute did not is up and she probably said to herself, well, they can't stay very long in a few days, it'll be night. and then they'll have to leave in. so i don't think we really bothered the moon at all at the slenderness. oh, actually you tiny creatures did bring a bit of life into my tranquillity. with each of your visits in total 6, you gained confidence and became more courageous. even daring to drive around in vehicles. and in those bulky space suits, it couldn't have been easy for you to move around and collect data for your research. by the way, everything that you left behind will still be here in the future. should you come back? it's proof that you were here. oh, lice,

who knows how long mankind will exist and may be one day won't. they'll be a kind of moon archaeology at some future being. we'll stop on the moon to take a look at what the apollo astronauts were up to 1000 or 2000 years ago. o. 6 6 science owes great insights to the apollo astronauts of your or rather the rock samples from my surface that they brought back with them. that actually gave away some of my secrets. for example, concerning my origins more than 4500000000 years ago, a celestial body as big as mars grazed the earth. it's believed i was created out of the debris that came out of that impact. the so called big splash.

i have taught you that the early days of our solar system were a lot more dramatic than you thought. asteroids and comics bombarded everything in their path. but the traces of these impacts on earth have almost disappeared. in the meantime, i have become the most researched, celestial body in our solar system. next to the earth. of course, whole swarms of satellites have targeted me since the millennium. from all over your planet, the usa, japan, europe, india, and china probes have peered into every crater with cameras and spectrometers mapped to my surface and explored my resources. in fact, you have even bombarded me with rockets and crushed satellites onto my surface to see which substances are hidden in my swirling dust. even my backside has been

explored. in 2019 the chinese put down a robotic lunar rover for the 1st time on my dark side called the you to to you discovered my most hidden raw materials. even the water in my darkest craters at the poles. ah man, mister fawn all is gained just as fussy and you'll have to assume that the water isn't simply lying there as ice, that you can and take a chunk out of. you'll have to dig around to find it as well as with most of it will be hidden inside the rock in the form of tiny water. christina, in the rubble on the surface, holly dear, should she stay off to overflow you league? for decades, you have been tinkering on machines in your laboratories that can collect my moon dust in order to use it as building materials or extract water from it. and your vehicles need to be pretty versatile and easy to maneuver if you want to drive on

my powder. fine, sandy lunar soil, which you call regolith. pretty soon, the united arab emirates will send its 1st rover to me named rashid with a lunar lander from japan. there's a gold rush, feeling right now. oh, lou of research robots are scheduled for a visit in the near future. and russia is planning to land on my surface again after almost 50 years. india wants to try again as well with a loaner vehicle that will chemically analyze my rock. it's 1st lunar lander in 2019 fell silent just before touch down. nasa has something big plan to. it wants to send a golf cart sized robotic rover to my south pole to search for water ice. it will be the 1st time that

a vehicle visits one of my permanently dark cold craters. there was a certain tug along on the moon at stay time for 14 consecutive earth days and then my time for 14 days. so it may not be a big problem for humans button and any electronic equipment at minus a 100 degrees celsius. just put your phone and the fraser after 5 minutes, it'd be ruined with everything that goes to the moon has to be able to survive 14 endless nights. but you, earth, people with your immense curiosity and desire to explore will not let yourself be stopped by such minor problems. at my south pole, i have craters. the rims are so high that they are almost always in the sunlight. with nasa is planning to build a station at one of these craters, the so called lunar base camp. and that'll be the end of any peace and quiet here.

i'm going on. the plan is that astronauts initially come here for a short visit to check out the immediate surroundings while robots bring the necessary equipment and build up the infrastructure. until the time when you erst weller's could move here for good i think you can some old yet actually the moon can already be considered an extra continent to the us. it's certainly close enough of us in 50 years. it will probably be something like antarctica. it'll be a continent where people go to conduct research as mod, fossil deployed, and this will be proper research stations on the moon, yawning, and hotels. maybe not in 50 years, but probably in a 100. and people will do business on the moon with mortars. after more. this year nasa ames to bring its new moon rocket to the launch pad for the 1st time

and send off a capsule for an orbit around me initially without a crew. if everything goes to plan, astronauts could soon be visiting me once again. in addition, a small space station is to the built in my orbit. the components are already being constructed on earth. before the end of this decade, the 1st modules could arrive and be assembled. the outpost will serve as a springboard to land on my surface. it will make visits to myself, poll possible at any time, not only for robots remotely controlled from the station, but it will also allow you earthlings to explore my terrain. like never before. soon you will be gazing up at me through new eyes. ah,

so materials such as silicon titanium and red earth missiles, which are necessary for cellphones and batteries alluring us to the moon. it good us wondering would you like to fly to the moon? and what would you think about the idea of mining rule materials that soon to rights i would go to the moon after doing my best for the i undress says over the years, decades and centuries. our earth will run out of metals and other elements. it is necessary to extract these will materials and the most likely place to do so is the moon. melissa writes, the moon is important for the earth. we don't know if it's used could have

secondary effects on tides, ocean currents, and even be earth's rotational axis. toby fears the richer looking for something to speculate on instead of properly taken care of the us. why are they spending the money on something unattainable? why didn't they say money to repair the damaged us? she's our home to see, it is also skeptical about mining on the moon and rights. it's a very bad idea. mankind is not satisfied with destroying the us, but still wants to wipe out the rest of the universe. and marcus writes, nobody likes the idea, but everybody wants the me, my phone. thanks for your interest in comments here on a, a wide variety of materials is used in the construction sector. which materials i used

for which purposes and which types of buildings depend on the local environment and climate. but how the any materials used on an o suited for building on the moon for get concrete and play building on the moon call something completely different. oh here it is, the future of humanity that is if this man has his way, i was shown inclined. even a small object would be a 1st in human history and event. we've been to the man what we've never built anything outside of earth's atmosphere to mathias spell of the german aerospace center is working on precisely this vision. these baked bricks should one day be used for buildings on the moon. ah,

they could then one day look like this. residential buildings, green houses, warehouses, paved paths or even protective walls and foundations for radio telescopes, and other large scale technical equipment. construction under extreme conditions, cosmic radiation is just one issue. there's also gigantic temperature swings from minus $100.00 degrees to plus $100.00 degrees centigrade. transporting, building materials to the moon would also be too expensive for building the only raw material that makes sense to use is to be found on site moon dust. for their experiments on earth material researchers are using volcanic ash, which is physically and chemically, almost identical to lunar dust. the results look like this. the shine had seen

utterly the bricks. don't look perfect yet of course they're not supposed to be perfect and then thought it is. the thing with the ordering about the method is that it's simple and available and robust. so it can be made to work relatively quickly with little effort in an environment that really doesn't have electricity. do you normally coastal uncles up the solution. some light, it can be used to generate enough heat to fire the bricks virus. so like hell like this one at the german aerospace center, a helio start is basically a huge mirror and it reflects the sunlight into a concentrator. a honeycomb pattern of 159 mirrors concentrates at 5000 times and directs it into the interior of the solar farm. s. a single, highly focused beam of light generates temperatures up to $2500.00 degrees centigrade

which is needed to bake the moon dust together layer by layer on a special table that scans are programmed mold, the brick is created and a kind of 3 d printing process this light beam acts like the print head in the process. of course, if what hubig advantage with this method is when i do it layer by layer in 3 d printing, or i'm much more flexible on site and i can build exactly what i need on the spot with little materials to look in all progress to make building on the moon as easy as possible. research has a tinkering with different geometric shapes that support one another without mortar or scaffolding. after all, those materials would have to be transported to the moon. but if it works

on us, how can you be sure it works under luna conditions? vicki go parameter, often more just an important factor on the moon. is it a vacuum? and that's why we're also doing some of our soul of furnace experiments with vacuum chambers. and with these, we determine whether the process of baking these luna sans depends drastically on whether there's oxygen present or not. all washed off into a gable hobbit wouldn't get the result even without an atmosphere like on the moon . the process works. so in the end, the moon dust becomes stone like a solid as plaster. it could already be used to build walls on the me that would be thick enough to protect astronauts from cosmic radiation. so far, the e u has invested around 1000000 euros in these bricks all working towards the ground vision of the moon village,

but couldn't brakes made of sand. also be handy here on earth in the desert for example, baking sahara sand into bricks, fi, a 3 d printing would be comparatively expensive, but another variety is promising. we have other things and freaked out. we've also recently finished a project where we don't make bricks directly fall in the sand, but where we 1st improve the desert sand then which is often unsuitable for producing concrete, for example, in addition through our processes, in some cases, if we could make very good concrete based materials from the desert, sand in these remote regions. so pies, yahoo to baton crunched or figured out we had in country. ah, an industrial partner for this project is already in place. and until the next mean mission mateusz bell will continue working on the stability of his 3 d printed

bricks. he hopes that instead of being simply as strong as plaster, they will one day me as hard as concrete time now for our view, a question. mm. the world is full of incredible natural phenomena. sometimes it's enough just to sit back and admire them. but sometimes figuring out the science behind them is just as fascinating. frederick k a before from gonna wants to know. how is a rainbow formed there? one of nature's most colorful displays for a rainbow. you need 2 things. countless water droplets suspended in the air and sunlight. under the right conditions, each water droplets can act like a prism. this is how it works. water is denser than air. so light passing through a drop let slows down a little,

and its path is altered. that process is called refraction. the light then balances back off the inner surface. on the opposite side of the droplet. sunlight is made up of radiation of many wavelengths. some are perceived by the human eye as colors . depending on how long or short the wave lengths are, they slow down inside the water droplets might different amounts. this causes what we otherwise see is white light to become visible and its component wavelengths, the visible colors that make up a rainbow. so a rainbow is an optical illusion. it doesn't actually exist. been a specific spot in the sky. being able to see it depends on where you're standing, the water droplets have to be suspended in the air, which is why we might see them around the time that it rains. and the sun has to be behind the observer. it also needs to be pretty low in the sky. the light needs to strike the raindrop in front of the viewer at a 42 degree angle. for the observer, the lower the sun is in the sky, the more of an arc,

the rainbow will appear to have a full rainbow is actually a full circle, but viewed from ground, you can only see the part that appears above the horizon. rainbows can also often be seen near waterfalls on sunny days because of the droplets in the spring. so if you're standing in the right place at the right time, when it's sunny and raining, you may just catch a glimpse of one if i want, what is read, why i gave you? do you also have a science question? send it in to us my video text or voice message. if we answer it on the show, we'll send you a little surprise as a thank you. so just ask and there are more signs stories on the web to head for our web size. oh, should twitter that's

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