'Hell' does not light throughout ... 2 billion years on the Moon

There are places on the Moon that have been billions of years of sunshine and only illuminated by an unmanned NASA spacecraft.

A new video was released by NASA's Science Observatory at Goddard Space Flight Center, explaining how the Moon Detective (LRO) gathered information at the darkest and coldest craters on the Moon.

The earth is tilted at an angle of 23.4 degrees from the vertical axis. This means that sunlight can reach every corner of the Earth, even in two polar regions. Meanwhile, the Moon only tilted 1.6 degrees, almost perpendicular to sunlight. This shows that there are some places near the extreme of the Moon that will never receive the Sun's light for more than 2 billion years.

What makes scientists interested in the 'always in the dark' areas of the Moon? Because scientists believe that place may contain volatile things and escape into space like water. In fact, the LRO, along with other Moon exploration ships from Japan and India, help confirm the existence of frozen water on the Moon.

In October 2009, the LRO discovered frozen water while his 'sister' , Satellite observes the crater on the Moon, crashed into a volcanic piece that was always in the dark near the south pole of the Moon. .

Colored face of the interior of Shackleton crater,
an area that is always engulfed in darkness in the Moon.

The LRO was launched into space in June 2009. This $ 504 million space probe is equipped with a variety of devices, including a laser measuring instrument, to create the most detailed topographic maps of the lunar surface in the darkest areas. This ship is also equipped with a device to measure neutron temperature and permeability in the darkest areas on the Moon.

When the sun couldn't reach ' , the Lyman Ray Project of the LRO project could detect the weak rays that other stars would reach this crater.