These craters are “really like the dusty attic of the solar system, ” said Michael Wargo, the chief lunar scientist at NASA headquarters.

这些月坑“真像是太阳系封尘古远的阁楼，”NASA总部的首席月球科学家迈克尔•瓦格（Michael Wargo）如是说。

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Many areas of the lunar South Pole are literally frozen in time, holding preserved clues to the formation of our solar system.

月球南极的很多地区都保留着古老的地理线索，对研究太阳系的形成很有帮助。

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The Moon is likely to become the industrial hub of the Solar System, supplying the rocket fuels fro its ships, easily obtainable from the lunar rocks in the from of liquid oxygen.

月球很可能成为太阳系的工业中心。从月球上的岩石中很容易提炼出液态氧，作为航天飞船的燃料。

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Engineers on the ground designed a way the astronauts could connect air-cleaning devices from the command module to the air system in the lunar module.

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They have been testing a laser system for measuring lunar dust and soil kicked up by rocket exhausts, and while using precipitation as a substitute to calibrate the laser, they found they could measure the average size of raindrops passing through it.

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With its superior lift capability, the SLS will expand our reach in the solar system and allow us to explore cis-lunar space, near-Earth asteroids, Mars and its moons and beyond.

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If the moon harbours ice, for example, measuring the amount of it at different depths could enable planetary scientists to work out the rate at which comets smashed into the lunar surface over its history, and that knowledge could then be plugged into models of the formation of the solar system.

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