Kaberi Dutta ChatterjeeDirector, KAA Media · Narrative Architect | Director, KAA Media Inc.

Why #chandrayaan3 is so important for the world #india #neildegrassetyson #indiaonthemoon

23 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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This content was created by Kaberi Dutta Chatterjee. This content was uploaded by Kaberi Dutta Chatterjee. This is a YouTube video titled "Why #chandrayaan3 is so important for the world #india #neildegrassetyson #indiaonthemoon" (uploaded 2023-08-23). The excerpt is a spoken single-speaker explanation about how comet-delivered water on the Moon can become trapped in permanently shadowed polar craters (cold traps), why those cold traps preserve water, and why accessible lunar water is important for future crewed missions (drinking water and splitting H2O into hydrogen and oxygen for rocket fuel).

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go from the comets? Well, if the comet landed where the Sun shines, that water can just evaporate back into space. But wherever the water deposits— whenever the water deposits at the bottom of one of those dark craters, it stays forever. And we call it a cold trap. And this only happens at the poles. Because anywhere else, the Sun gets high enough to reach inside of the bottoms of the craters. Why is this important? Because future missions of astronauts, you don't want to haul everything from Earth to the Moon to survive. And water, you can— if there's water there in abundance, you can drink the water. You can separate the hydrogen and the oxygen. Yes. H2O, separate them. Those 2 recombined make rocket fuel. So, so it's very likely