The basic idea behind the project, which launched into space in June, is to try to find out where water might exist in the darkest recesses of the moon's South Pole.

用于碰撞的卫星6月时发射升空，本项目背后最基本的想法是要找出在月球南极最黑暗隐秘处可能有水的具体地点。

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The thin magnetic films can be manipulated to trigger vastly different signals depending upon which direction they face (basically "north pole" and "south pole"), allowing them to be read as the ones or zeros of basic computer code.

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