CHINA BUILDS AN ‘ARTIFICIAL MOON’ FOR GRAVITY EXPERIMENTS
Feb 24, 2022
2 minutes
Reported by Ben Turner
hinese scientists have built an ‘artificial Moon’ research facility that will enable them to simulate low-gravity environments using magnetism. The facility, launching this year, will use powerful magnetic fields inside a 60-centimetre (23.6-inch) diameter vacuum chamber to make gravity ‘disappear’. The scientists were inspired by an earlier
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