Sunday, April 27, 2025

How do you build meteorite-resistant habitats on the Moon?

 Hey, Space Placers!

Underground regolith model part 2

    Design of a moon settlement. 

    Credit: Monika Stankiewicz

Humanity is going back to the Moon to stay this time. We will need technologies that allow us to live off the land on the Moon - and shelters. These shelters need to provide protection from temperature extremes, solar and cosmic radiation - and meteorites.

There is no atmosphere to burn up and coming impactors on the Moon and there are untold numbers of impacts every day. Even the smallest lunar impact meteorite carries at least the energy of a large caliber rifle bullet which can damage concrete.

This intriguing article explains how humans might overcome this problem.

Sky Guy in VA

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