World’s 1st lunar
library survives crash landing
The world’s first
ever lunar library containing 30 million pages which flew to the moon on
Israel’s Beresheet lander has survived the spacecraft’s crash landing on April
12, and will remain there for five billion years.
The Israeli lunar mission — the world’s first private one — was a joint venture
of a private body called Space IL and the Israeli Aerospace Industries. The
library is made of tiny etched pages and images containing the most important
aspects of human history and cultural treasures from every nation. It is a
stack of 25 nickel dvd-sized discs, glued together with 24 layers
of slow cure
epoxy raisin, and then sealed with protective material which will last up to
five billion years.
“Images have
indicated that at least 60,000 pages of the library have survived,’’ said Nova
Spivack, chairman of the Arch Mission Foundation, which built the library.
Source | Times of India
| 31st May 2019
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