moon_camp

Moon Camp Explorers Gallery 2020-2021

In Moon Camp Explorers each team’s mission is to 3D design a complete Moon Camp using Tinkercad. They also have to explain how they will use local resources, protect astronauts from the dangerous of space and describe the living and working facilities.

Team: The Moon camp conquest

Collège du Bredenarde  Audruicq    France 14

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Project description

The aim of the project is to create a lunar base suitable for everyone in order to live on the moon despite the present environment. This lunar camp must be as innovative and creative as possible.

Where do you want to build your Moon Camp?

We want to build our moon camp on Clavius Crater. It is located on the visible face of the moon, southwest of Tycho Crater.

Why did you choose this location?

We chose this location because it is large (it is 225 km in diameter) and its depth (3.5 km deep). There is also the fact that water molecules are present nearby. There are between 100 and 412 ppm. Another criterion that makes us want to live there is the fact that in the South of the Moon, it is more often day than night.

How do you plan to build your Moon Camp? Which materials would you use?

We are going to use ressources already available on the Moon like dust and make bricks out of it to build roads and launch areas. Scientists have found that lunar dust is similar to volcanic dust. What remains to be known for sure is whether this idea which seems so practical can be used and proves as efficient as expected.

Explain how your Moon Camp will provide the astronauts with:
Water
Food
Electricity
Air

To be able to drink on the moon, we rely on two aspects:
• Finding water, which will be in the form of water molecules, on the moon. It is present on the surface, in microcraters, in a solid state.
• Another possibility is to make water on the moon thanks to the solar wind. This would enrich the surface of the moon with ingredients that could make water. Solar wind could break down the molecular bonds between oxygen and silicon. This solution is not yet certain, apparently more research is needed.

For food we are going to use two different methods:
One is called aquaponics.
And we’re going to have insect farms so as to access a plentiful source of proteins.

As we know that nights on the moon are long and last fourteen days we chose to build a solar farm which will collect heat during the lunar day and provide electricity during the lunar night.

We are going to use two methods. The first one would be to grow plants that would release oxygen using CO2 breathed out by astronauts.
Another way would be to use water electrolysis which would produce dioxygen and hydrogen.

Describe a day on the Moon for one of your Moon Camp astronauts

One morning, on waking up, a very ambitious young boy wanted to go on the moon. He had no close family so he thought he wouldn’t miss what he didn’t have. Before taking the final decision he tried to get as much information as possible and tried to learn everything he would need to live on the Moon. He has this dream and other dreams as well which is only normal for someone his age. At 18 he was sure what he wanted to become. He would be an astronaut. April 21st 2021 is a day he’s not likely to forget. He was ready to go. The big day has finally come. He’s ready to spend five days aboard a rocket that will get him to the Moon. Of course he has prepared for the Moon Camp and knows what to do to survive in this hostile environment.
3,2,1 ignition! There are 3 people aboard. Once on the Moon our 3 adventurers looked around to see where they could build and opted for Clavius crater as days are longer than nights down there. They decided their camp would be dome like as it’s the shape that offers most resistance.
For food they use aquaponics and have an insect farm. For energy they have a solar farm that works during the day and another one that works during the night. And he deices to grow plants that would release oxygen using CO2 breathed out by astronauts.
Another way he chooses is to use water electrolysis which would produce dioxygen and hydrogen.


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