"We know that the moon is vacuum with no air, so it is difficult to make a flag flutter by wind like on Earth," said Zhang Tianzhu, deputy head of the institute of future technology at the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory.
That lab was co-established by the China National Space Administration and the University of Science and Technology of China and began operations in June 2022. It is headquartered in Hefei, the capital city of Anhui, and has a branch in Beijing.
Zhang said the flag-fluttering solution is based on arranging closed loop wires on the surface of the flag with access to two-way positive and negative current, which will "make the flag flutter through the interaction of electromagnetic fields."
China plans to launch its Chang'e 7 lunar lander to find traces of water ice at the moon's south pole around 2026. If successful, the deployed flag will be the first to actually flutter on the lunar surface.
Source: www.space.com
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