00:00Kelsey Young, científica lunar de la NASA, lidera Artemis II y el Grupo de Análisis de Exploración Lunar,
00:08centrando su investigación en el polo sur de la Luna.
00:12Esta zona con cráteres en sombra permanente contiene hielo de agua, clave para obtener agua, oxígeno y combustible,
00:21además de valiosa información sobre el origen del sistema solar.
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01:03NASA's Artemis missions are NASA's plan to send people to the surface of the Moon.
01:08We'll be sending people and roving assets and scientific equipment to, among other things, answer a lot of really compelling science questions.
01:16Scientists have a lot to learn about the Moon.
01:18It's our nearest celestial neighbor here to Earth, so what the Moon has experienced, we've experienced.
01:23Except here on Earth, we have things like plate tectonics, oceans, forests, people that erase the rock record.
01:29Whereas on the Moon, that whole record of our planet's history, of the Moon's history, is just kind of waiting there at the surface for us to explore.
01:36The South Pole, which is where Artemis missions are going to target, is specifically interesting for a couple key reasons.
01:42We think there are volatiles at the South Pole of the Moon that are not present near the equator.
01:46Things like water and water ice that are trapped in the lunar regolith, which basically just means lunar soil, that can easily become untrapped from that lunar regolith,
01:54and scientists can scoop up and study for a return to Earth.
01:58The lunar South Pole is a really exciting scientific target, and it also comes with some challenges for operating.
02:04For example, the lighting environment will change drastically within the course of one mission, and even over, sometimes, the course of one spacewalk.
02:12So preparing the crew members, preparing the hardware that we're sending to the Moon, and preparing the mission control teams is really, really important.
02:20The South Pole-Akin Basin is particularly exciting. We think it's one of the oldest and largest impact basins in the solar system.
02:26And if we can get the right rock from the South Pole-Akin Basin and bring it back to our labs here on Earth,
02:32we can use that sample to constrain the entire evolution of our solar system and really understand the timing of how the Moon and our planet and the entire solar system evolved.
