China's Space Program Thread II
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Likely moon dust kiced up by the wheel of the rover landed on the lens.
The lander cuts off its engines while still above the surface and free falls down.
Looks like a cyborg lunar spider.
Wouldn't be much of an issue. The fuel is hypergolic, the product would be HO2, CO2 and maybe some Nitrogen-Oxide. All being gas at the temperature of the exhaust. The first two doesn't react with anything in that condition, the last one may be some contamination, but should not be a problem due to its low probability because it is only present when the combusion is incomplete
There are two sample collections. The one from the drill will only have the top possibly being contaminated, the rest 90% would be fine. The other is from the surface with possible contamination, but as I said it shouldn't be an issue because Nitrogen is aboundant on moon. It would be equally a contamination on earth as when we get million year old ice sample from antactic.
The lander free falls from 0.5m, the exhaust has began blowing dust far from the surface (many metres). The dust can be blown as far as 8m away from the center of the nozzle. According to
When the dust is blown, it has already got contacted with the exhaust gas. So the free fall doesn't help.
PiSigma
"the engineer"
China is not India...
by78
General
Better images of the permanent lunar habitat proposal from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. The walls of the egg-shaped buildings are constructed in situ by 3D printing robots, using mostly lunar soil (80%) and binders. The structure also features a soft air-filled inner layer (like an airbag) designed to mitigate the effects of moonquakes while also serving as insulation.
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