Two years ago Chang'e 5 completed China's first extraterrestrial sample collection, China also became the world's third country to collect samples on the moon and return to Earth, the first two were the United States six manned lunar landings and the Soviet Union three unmanned probe landings on the moon. 1731 grams of sample is about three and a half pounds, but it has allowed scientists to achieve a series of research results!

On September 9, the National Space Administration and the National Atomic Energy Agency held a press conference to jointly announce the latest round of research results of Chang'e 5 samples. Scientists found new substances in the lunar samples collected by China's Chang'e 5, and coinciding with the Chinese traditional festival of Mid-Autumn Festival, scientists named the newly discovered ore "Chang'e stone", the sixth new mineral discovered by humans on the Moon.

The first country to discover new minerals in lunar samples was naturally the United States, as they successfully completed six manned lunar landings, collecting about 380 kg of lunar samples, followed by three unmanned probes from the former Soviet Union that landed on the moon, collecting a total of about 300 grams of lunar samples, while China, as the third country to collect samples from the moon, collected a total of 1,731 grams of samples from Chang'e 5.

For Chang'e 5 collected 1731 grams of samples can not be used arbitrarily, must be strictly controlled, the good steel used on the edge of the knife, as of now a total of 33 research institutions through the application, many results are also reflected one by one, which is also the romance of Chinese astronauts, "Chang'e stone" is the best gift to everyone.

Listening to this conference partners should be clear that the results of this research is not only a Chang'e stone, scientists also determined the content of helium three in the lunar samples of Chang'e 5, as well as the extraction parameters of helium three confirmed!

High value helium III

This material is the future of human beings in urgent need of clean nuclear energy, the current human way to obtain energy is relatively simple and crude, that is, "burning hot water", which is naturally not high efficiency, while the Earth's limited fossil energy, naturally can not always be for human use, we urgently need a new efficient way to use energy, that is, controlled fusion technology.

Humans currently use nuclear fusion technology only for super weapons, and the explosion of a hydrogen bomb is an uncontrollable fusion process. True controlled fusion is a process like that occurring at the core of the sun, and several countries are currently working intensively on controlled fusion technology.

For controlled fusion to become a viable energy source for mankind, its fuel must be clean, and helium III is the best choice. Because of its importance and the fact that it is rare, helium III is a very expensive resource on Earth, reaching $3 billion per ton.

For this very important resource, the helium III content on Earth is extremely scarce, according to incomplete statistics or less than one ton, while on the Moon the helium III content is extremely high, reaching millions of tons, which is the main reason why many countries are scrambling to go to the Moon.

Chang'e 5 sample helium III content confirmed

Controlled fusion technology is really efficient, and if clean helium III fuel is available, it is crucial to the development of human civilization. And scientists have determined the content of helium three in the lunar soil through the lunar samples collected by Chang'e 5, as well as some important parameters to confirm when extracting helium three, which is also a new breakthrough, after all, we already know that there is helium three on the moon, but how exactly to collect it from the lunar soil is the key.

The helium three resources on the moon are definitely very abundant, all thanks to the sun's universal illumination, the solar wind carries a lot of helium three resources outwardly, they hit the barren moon above, because there is no magnetic field protection, the lunar soil is violently impacted by the solar wind, so the helium three resources are stored down little by little.

On the contrary, the Earth is worse, there is a magnetic field and the protection of the atmosphere, naturally the solar wind out of the door, while the helium three resources can not reach the Earth above.

Scientists believe that the helium three resources on the moon can be used by human beings for at least 10,000 years, that is, 100 tons of helium three can be used by all human beings for 1 year, this figure is very exaggerated, think about how much gasoline will be consumed by vehicles in a city? And 100 tons of helium three can solve everything, including any place where human beings can use energy, clothing, food, housing and transportation in every aspect.

Said at the end

The United States carried out Apollo manned lunar landings from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, and after a half-century began a plan to return to the Moon. The entire Artemis program consists of six parts: the SLS rocket, the Orion spacecraft, the Exploration Ground System, the "Gateway" lunar orbiting space station, the manned lunar landing system and the "Artemis Base Camp" lunar base.

In fact, you can see that the ultimate goal is to establish a base on the moon to collect resources, while establishing a space station around the moon, which can prepare for a future manned landing on Mars.

Human exploration of the Moon, if utilitarian, is to find water on the Moon, to build a lunar base, and to collect helium III resources on the Moon. When the resource collection is completed, the exploration of the Moon may also be over!

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