The US is not the only country that wants to go back to the moon. China is planning future lunar missions to compete with NASA efforts, and it is also reportedly working on an "artificial Moon" to prepare for it.
The South China Morning Post reports that Chinese researchers are working on a facility that can show the lunar surface's gravity. The artificial Moon will be a vacuum chamber that recreates the low-gravity environment.
It will be built in a few months. Li Ruilin, an engineer at the China University of Mining and Technology, told the newspaper that once launched, it will make gravity disappear and last as long as you want.
A small game.
It is going to be just 60 centimeters in diameter. That is not enough space to fit a bulky space suit.
It will be big enough for researchers to test certain equipment and tools to see how they respond to the low-gravity environment on the Moon.
The impact test can be done in a few seconds, according to Li. creep testing can take several days.
The Frog is floating.
The facility was inspired by a previous research done by Andrew Geim, a Russian physicist. The experiment earned Geim the Ig Nobel Prize in physics.
It is cool that a quirky experiment involving floating a frog could lead to an antigravity chamber. It is just another indicator of how the international race back to the Moon is going.
China has built an artificial moon that mimics low-gravity conditions on Earth.
The Moon has enough Oxygen to sustain Billions of people.
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