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For this Monday a conference of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is forecast (Pot, for its acronym in English) in which it will deliver a “new and exciting” discovery about the Moon.
The event will take place at 12:00 Eastern, 1:00 PM in Chile, through the agency’s website. NASA will announce an exciting new discovery about the Moon from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) in a teleconference at 12 pm EDT on Monday, October 26. Audio of the conference call will be streamed live on the agency’s website.
“This new discovery contributes to NASA’s efforts to learn about the Moon in support of deep space exploration,” they wrote in a press release.
The discovery was made in the middle of the Artemis project, which seeks to bring the first woman and the next man to lunar territory in 2024. With this they prepare for the next great leap: the arrival of man on Mars in 2030.
One of the clues that they advanced is that, in the process, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (Sofia), built thanks to the efforts of NASA and the German Aerospace Center.
Sofia is a Boeing 747 Modified to carry a 2.5 meter reflecting telescope. It flies at an altitude of about 13 kilometers and its first observation dates from May 2010.
“By flying above 99% of the obscuring water vapor in the atmosphere, Sofia observes at infrared wavelengths and can detect phenomena impossible to see with light,” they explain from NASA.
In the announcement they will participate Paul Hertz, director of the Astrophysics division at NASA Headquarters; Y Jacob Bleacher, chief exploration scientist at the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at the headquarters of the same agency.
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