China says they’ve built an ‘artificial moon’ chamber that generates a low gravity like the moon for research. The chamber is inside a vacuum chamber and uses a powerful magnetic field to simulate low gravity, a technique developed by Russian physicist Andre Geim and used to make a frog float in 2000.
Gravity on the moon is about one-sixth the gravity on Earth, and Chinese scientists developed the device to test equipment they plan to use during a manned trip to the moon, which China has said they’ll do by 2030 in partnership with Russia.
Source: Daily Mail
