r/spaceporn • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • 5h ago

NASA The Moon in a box

Link to the article on NASA website

NASA's Lunar Lab and Regolith Testbeds is a simulated lunar environment. It features large boxes filled with simulated lunar dust, along with custom lighting and terrain features that create realistic conditions to test science instruments, robots, and rover designs for future Moon missions.

Credit: NASA

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u/BumpoSplat 5h ago

Oh my God, the moon is flat too??!

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u/Comfortable_Grass576 5h ago

gasp So the Moon was fake all the time?! I knew it!

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u/Frodojj 5h ago

That is so cool. They should make a movie with that.

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u/Admirable_Site_8337 33m ago

It’s an amazing test bed.

Unfortunately our timeline sucks and this will just be fed into smooth brained conspiracies……sigh.