South Korea Is Scouting Out the Moon, With More Missions to Come - Yahoo! Voices

The Danuri spacecraft, which launched on Thursday, aims to provide a lunar scientific bounty while preparing the country’s small space program for future exploration.

What we would learn from that is kind of a global map of the interior temperature and potentially composition and maybe even water content of the deep parts of the moon, Dr. Garrick-Bethel said. Sci… [+1611 chars]

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