00:00To help prepare astronauts for future missions, the German Aerospace Center has opened its
00:07new Luna facility.
00:09This recreation of the moon on Earth will help astronauts like Matthias Maurer train
00:14for the harsh conditions they will encounter at the South Pole.
00:19And so stepping into Luna in the morning, I see all this and I think, okay, how will
00:25it be when humans will walk again on the moon?
00:29You see rocks, you see the sand, you see a relief, and the light conditions as on the
00:35moon.
00:36And since we will be flying to the South Pole area, the light will be very low on the horizon,
00:41and that's what we have here.
00:44In the future, we want to take samples, samples where we expect that frozen water will be
00:49mingled and mixed with the sand.
00:52So we can drill into frozen sand here in Luna, and nobody else on planet Earth can do this.
00:59NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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