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: Moon Watchers
Primary School No. 3 in Puławy Puławy Poland 14
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Project description
Our lunar base called National space station 2000 is a single dome, that is covered on the outside with transparent glass, |
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Where do you want to build your Moon Camp?
Shackleton crater Why did you choose this location?
We would like to build our Moon camp on the Shackleton crater. It is an impact crater that lies at the south pole of the Moon. We chose this site because the peaks along the rim of the crater are exposed to almost continuous sunlight, while the interior is always in shadow. The low-temperature interior of this crater acts as a cold trap that can trap and freeze volatiles that are released when a comet hits the Moon. Lunar Prospector measurements showed higher than normal amounts of hydrogen in the crater, which may indicate the presence of water ice. All these advantages will contribute to improving the life of astronauts on the Moon. How do you plan to build your Moon Camp? Which materials would you use?
To build our space base, we will use a large amount of gypsum powder, which we will take with us from Earth, to make the plaster ready for use, we will use the natural resources from the Moon such as water from the craters. The next material will be cement, and like gypsum, will need water. The last material will be glass also obtained from Earth in order to seal the center of the base tightly. This glass, however, will not be ordinary, it will be the thickest and most durable glass produced to protect astronauts from meteorite impacts. Explain how your Moon Camp will provide the astronauts with:
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Water
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Food
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Electricity
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Air
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In order to have water, astronauts must use the local resources from the Moon in the form of ice in the craters. In order to get water from ice, astronauts use machines constructed on the Earth that turn ice into liquid. By putting solid state water-ice into the machine, the heating sensors melt the ice and create water. |
In order to have food, which is the most important source of energy for humans, on Earth they had to stock up on large supplies of food and sterilize food in sealed packages to suck out unnecessary water, which would quickly spoil and rot the food. When the supplies run out, the astronauts send a signal to the lab technicians watching them from Earth to send them another food supply in a small rocket that would fly to the Moon, leave food behind, and fly away, controlled by laborers, on Earth. |
Energy that is a physical quantity, allowing to live andpowering equipment is very necessary for astronauts in space |
Air is a mixture of gases necessary for human life and functioning in the natural environment. Air consists of many chemicals, mainly oxygen. Oxygen is produced in greenhouses near the space base and then stored in large tanks that discharge the oxygen produced in the greenhouse to the base. To nourish the plants, the carbon dioxide exhaled and collected by discharge pipes ending in greenhouses is absorbed by the plants and converted into oxygen. |
Describe a day on the Moon for one of your Moon Camp astronauts
Astronaut’s day is full of surprises and discoveries, an adventure that begins with a reveille at 7:00 am. When the astronaut gets up, his training begins at 7:30 am and ends at 8:30 am. Training is a very necessary activity because it stimulates the muscles to work for the whole day. Then the astronaut eats breakfast. Somewhere at 9 a.m. |