Colonizing The Moon: A Challenge That We Will Take

Colonizing the moon may sound like a fantasy, but in all actuality, it is just out of arms reach. Recently scientists across the globe have been speculating whether it is possible to colonize the moon. This has been a dream of ours for centuries, unfortunately this idea is still just science-fiction to us. Despite this we are not going to give up that easily, Darby Dyer a physician and astronomer quotes, that the moon to people today was what the New World was to Europeans 600 years ago. “They had been there a few times, but it took time to work up the courage to send people there to stay”. Colonizing the moon is a hard challenge, and for some reason because Mr. Munoz thinks that we can triumph where thousands of licensed scientists have failed, it is a challenge that we will take.

The first step of colonizing the moon would be stabilizing the pressure and the temperature. The moon has no atmosphere so unless you wanted your organs to be sucked out of you, then you need to have an artificial atmosphere, an artificial atmosphere would have several things that you need to live, but for now its main purpose would be for you to feel pressure. They have an artificial atmosphere like this on space stations and on spaceships. This atmosphere stabilizes the pressure making sure that you aren’t being exploded from the inside out. This is the reason that you can take your spacesuit off (which also has an artificial atmosphere), in spaceships. The second thing that you would want to do is to stabilize the temperature. Like I’ve said before the moon has no atmosphere, so it is either always freezing, or always burning. Unless you would like to be turned into a melted popsicle you need to fix this. The way that you would fix this would be. . . air conditioning. Yes, air conditioning. Air conditioning your space base with a very powerful heater/cooler would help you to be able to live in the moon's hostile temperature. This is what astronauts do. Problem solved. The moon is something that yet to be fully explored. What does hold for us? Well for certain it doesn’t hold much for us; we need to provide our own things and possibly grow things on the very surface of the moon. Recent studies show that water could potentially form in the moon due to the wind currents that create hydrogen and perhaps merge with the oxygen atoms. With the lifeless soil, it is impossible to harvest food and plant from the soil so enriching it would be the way to go and providing oxygen would be crucial. Not only that but oxygen is a huge problem over at the moon so the likelihood of us inhabiting it any time soon is out of our reach.

The possibilities do increase with time. Over time our technology does advance so within years we’ll be able to travel to the moon and likely enjoy regular day at the moon. Although let's begin with a solution for cultivating the food. Many fruits and vegetables need a water source and we can get that by a water source that could be present in the moon. Plants need oxygen as well.  So, we would need to make an artificial atmosphere that could potentially keep oxygen present. Plants need vitamins as well so artificial lighting would do the job in keeping them nutritious. This would ensure food in the moon so now our possibility isn't far out of site.

The earth has an atmosphere but the moon has a exosphere. In a exosphere, but the molecules that the exosphere has don’t collide often so in turn, the moon doesn’t have an actual atmosphere. There are about 100 molecules every 1 cubic centimeter. Just at sea level, earth has over 100 billion, billion molecules per cubic centimeter.  So, in turn, the moons exosphere weights about the same weights of a fully loaded dump truck (55,000 lb. ). And the exosphere is so light that at night the exosphere will go to the ground. And then it will lift back up by the wind in later days.  “Several elements have been detected in the lunar atmosphere. Detectors left by Apollo astronauts have detected argon-40, helium-4, oxygen, methane, nitrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. Earth-based spectrometers have detected sodium and potassium, while the Lunar Prospector orbiter found radioactive isotopes of radon and polonium.  Recently, scientists even found that water molecules less than a micrometer thick could survive on the lunar surface. ” Says space. com, also, helium was detected in the atmosphere at the same time as this information was discovered. So, for this matter, we will need to have an atmosphere for humans to colonize on the moon and we will need to have gravity to stay put.  So, to me that would mean that we will need to shoot the necessary molecules in our atmosphere into the moon exosphere to kind of like mimic the atmosphere that earth has.

So, to restate what is in this document in a summary, we talked about how we need to form a way to inhabit the moon and how we need to handle the situation. Having all the things we have stated here in this document is crucial to our survival on the moon. Keeping our species alive is crucial to our survival.