A bold idea. Who would have thought that there was a way to live on the Moon!
In fairy tales, the Moon is a beautiful place, and depending on the culture, the beauty will be different. As in Asian fairy tales, the Moon has a palace, Hang Nga and Jade Rabbit, or a banyan tree with Uncle Cuoi sitting next to it.
But in reality, the Moon is not at all beautiful. The 4.5 billion year old Earth satellite is just a giant boulder, with no atmosphere, the temperature is either extremely cold or extremely hot, and of course no one can live.
The ambition to make humans live on the Moon is not so relieved, but not successful. However, recently ESA – European Space Agency came up with an extremely bold idea, seems absurd but proves extremely reasonable to place humans on this satellite. This idea is: put humans “in the soil” of the Moon.
In fact, the Moon has been explored a lot but mostly only on the surface. Mankind has stepped on it, even … golfed in it, but beneath the surface there are a lot of mysteries. ESA therefore wants to solve this mystery, through a hole that would have been formed by the lava collapse more than a billion years ago.
The geological structure of this area is almost identical to that of the rocks of Hawaii. The difference may be due to the fact that this location must be exposed to meteorites falling from space.
“Mining and tagging these lava tubes will not only provide new information on the geological makeup of the Moon, but also offer more interesting options, such as creating long-term shelters for species,” he said. said Francesco Sauro, ESA training director.
“The bunker will protect astronauts from cosmic radiation and meteorites, and can provide access to frozen water believed to be hidden beneath the satellite’s surface.”
Currently, ESA is soliciting ideas from the community to explore this area. They wanted a convenient way to locate them more easily and at the same time allow communications from below the cave to the surface and to Earth unhindered.
“The ideas could be based on a robotic system, or a satellite, or a combination of the two,” said Loredana Bessone, the person behind the idea.
“In addition, we are working on a system that will land on the Moon, collect and identify caves, and help scientists explore.”
