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Israeli lander sent to the moon carrying library of 'precious knowledge and biological heritage'
The 'Lunar Library' backing up all of humanity: Israeli lander sent to the moon carrying 30 MILLION PAGES of humankind's 'precious knowledge and biological heritage'
- 'Lunar Library' resembles a '120mm DVD,' but it's composed of 25 nickel discs
- It was flung into the galaxy on board Israel's private 'Beresheet' lunar lander
- Each layer contains thousands of pages of books and documents, as well as an entire copy of the English language Wikipedia and a guide to many languages
Israel's lunar lander is ferrying some very precious cargo to the moon.
On board the 1,290lb spacecraft is a set of tiny disks containing a whopping 30 million pages of documents that serve as an archive of human civilization.
Called the 'Lunar Library,' the record was created by the Arch Mission Foundation for the purpose of preserving humanity's 'precious knowledge and biological heritage' well into the future.
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On board the 1,290lb 'Beresheet' spacecraft is a set of tiny disks containing a whopping 30 million pages of documents that serve as an archive of human civilization
The lunar lander, called Beresheet, blasted off on Thursday from Cape Canaveral atop a Falcon 9 rocket.
As part of its journey, it will orbit the Earth for roughly six weeks, before reaching lunar orbit in early April. If successful, it will then attempt a lunar touchdown on April 11th.
Beresheet, which translates to Genesis, or 'In The Beginning,' is carrying an Israeli flag, as well as the Lunar Library.
The Lunar Library resembles a '120mm DVD,' but it's actually composed of 25 nickel film discs, each being just 40 microns thick, according to the Arch Mission Foundation.
The first four layers are made up of 60,000 photographs of pages of books, photos, illustrations and documents.
A timelapse of SpaceX successfully launching its Falcon 9 rocket into space. It is carrying the privately-funded Beresheet lunar lander. The name is Hebrew for Genesis
As part of Beresheet's (pictured) journey, it will orbit the Earth for roughly six weeks, before reaching lunar orbit in April. If successful, it will then attempt a lunar touchdown on April 11th
The first layer is 'visible to the naked eye,' can be viewed with 100x magnification and contains 1,500 pages of text, images, logos and other data.
The next three layers can be viewed at 1000x magnification.
In these layers are 20,000 images of texts and photos, including a 'Primer that teaches over a million concepts...as well as the content of the Wearable Rosetta disc,' which is a guide to the linguistics of more than 1,000 human languages.
Among the other information included on the disc are technical instructions detailing the scientific and engineering knowledge that's required to access, decode and understand the digital information located further in the Lunar Library.
There's also an entire copy of the English language Wikipedia, Israeli history and data from the Long Now Foundation, a linguistic guide to 5000 languages.
The Lunar Library amounts to about 200gb of data when its digital contents are decompressed.
It won't be the only Lunar Library that will be sent to the moon, either.
WHAT IS BERESHEET?
Beresheet is about 5 feet (1 meter) tall by 7.5 feet (2.3 meters) wide with its landing gear and legs deployed
Beresheet will stay in Earth’s orbit for about a month, slowly widening its ellipse until it reaches apogee, or its farthest point from here, at nearly 250,000 miles (400,000 kilometres) away.
It will then be slowly introduced to the orbit of the moon.
Lunar surface operations are meant to last just two days. Beresheet will measure the magnetic field at the landing site, and send back data and pictures.
A time capsule is aboard the lander - which includes a picture of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, who died aboard space shuttle Columbia in 2003.
Beresheet will stay in Earth’s orbit for about a month, slowly widening its ellipse until it reaches apogee, or its farthest point from here, at nearly 250,000 miles (400,000 kilometres) away
The Arch Mission Foundation will send another installment of the Lunar Library into space in the next five years on board a spacecraft with startup Astrobiotic.
'The idea is to place enough backups in enough places around the solar system, on an ongoing basis, that our precious knowledge and biological heritage can never be lost,' Arch Mission Foundation co-founder Nova Spivack told CNET.
It's not the first time the Arch Mission Foundation has tried sending one of its discs into space.
Elon Musk's SpaceX sent one of its special data devices into the galaxy inside the Tesla Roadster that was launched aboard the Falcon Heavy last February.
Inside that quartz silica glass disc was a copy of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy.
The plan is that should the Earth and all of humanity be destroyed by climate change, our history will be preserved.
'While I am optimistic that humanity will rise to the challenge and develop a multinational planetary defense initiative to mitigate these planetary risks, it is also prudent to have a plan B,' Spivack told CNET.
'Instead of one backup in one place our strategy is 'many copies, many places' -- and we plan to send updates on a regular basis.'
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