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China is poised to launch its first artificial moon after its artificial Sun achieved temperatures five times higher than the Sun. An "artificial moon" research facility has been developed by scientists. The facility will aid them in employing magnetism to conduct low-gravity situations.

A research laboratory for artificial moons

In the year 2022, the artificial moon research facility will be officially launched. It will employ intense magnetic fields within a 2-foot-diameter vacuum chamber to make gravity vanish. Scientists were motivated to create this study facility after seeing a prior experiment in which magnets were used to levitate a frog.

How will this facility imitate the surface of the moon?

To simulate the lunar surface, the research facility will be filled with pebbles and dust. The research facility's features

It is the world's first research centre of its sort. It can keep low-gravity conditions going for as long as scientists wish.

What purpose does this facility serve?

Scientists intend to utilise this facility to test technologies in low-gravity situations for extended periods of time before transporting it to the moon, where gravity is one-sixth that of Earth. This project will aid scientists in resolving technical challenges and determining whether certain buildings may survive on the surface of the moon. It will also aid in the evaluation of the feasibility of human habitation on the moon.

Tests for impact and creep

In the research centre, scientists will conduct impact and creep experiments. In the simulator, the impact test will take a few seconds, whereas the creep test will take some time. The creep test is used to determine how a material would deform when exposed to a constant temperature and load.

What motivated Chinese scientists to create this facility?

"Andre Geim," a physicist at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, motivated Chinese scientists to create this facility. He was awarded the "satirical Ig Nobel Prize in 2000" for executing an experiment in which he used a magnet to make a frog float. The phenomenon known as "diamagnetic levitation" was employed in his experiment to achieve levitation. The "Artificial Moon research facility" employs the same approach.

What is diamagnetic levitation, and how does it work?

Atoms are made up of atomic nuclei and electrons that circle them in current loops. Magnetic fields are created by moving currents. Normally, all of an object's atoms' randomly oriented magnetic fields cancel out, and no material-wide magnetism is seen. Electrons alter their velocity and create their own magnetic field to oppose the external magnetic field when an external magnetic field is applied to these atoms. The magnetic force of repulsion and the field of the atoms become powerful enough to overcome gravity and levitate the object into the air if the applied external field is strong enough. Diamagnetic levitation is the name for these phenomena.

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