Moon Camp Explorers Gallery 2021-2022
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 Lab
Escola Básica 2,3 São Pedro do Mar – Agrupamento de Escolas Dr.ª Laura Ayres Quarteira Portugal 11, 12, 13 10 / 6
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Project description
Our mission’s name is Bartolomeu to honour the Portuguese explorer who was the first navigator to round the southern tip of Africa. The project includes 4 shelters for astronauts prepared to help to protect its own structure as well as the astronaut’s life. |
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Where do you want to build your Moon Camp?
Between the Equator and the South Pole Why did you choose this location?
In medium latitudes will have more advantages: intermediate sun radiation, which is the best to plantations and to store energy. Some of the water may be found in one of the deepest, narrow, and closer craters, including the one in which the moon camp will be installed. However, it will be possible to extract water from the poles and carry it to the camp. How do you plan to build your Mooncamp? Which materials will you use?
It will be used 3D printing using sun as source of energy. Using the Regolight project technology it will enable to build walls with 2/3-meter-thick layers that will protect the camp. Moon sand and rocks (regoliths) through a sintering sun process will be agglomerated and compressed at high temperatures. In this process the sun rays are focused and giving rise to a concentred and strong solar beam that unites the regoliths without melting them. This is an additive process building layer by layer. This will enable build different geometries and sizes ensuring the construction of all needed structures to camp. |
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Water
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Food
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Electricity
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Air
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Protection
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There is an extraction source which withdraws and transforms the water ice on the moon in potable water to guarantee survival in the moon camp. For any eventuality, there will be a water reservation brought beforehand from the Earth. |
We would take seeds, fish and bugs eggs and other lyophilized and dehydrated food from the Earth. |
The camp is designed to help energetically to protect its own structure as well as the astronauts’ lives. There´s an energy source which will accumulate solar energy through a tower with a panel which receives the sun energy and allows recycling in the most varied aspects and needs to survive (like the process in the ISS). The sun heat will remain on the moon ground. Taking advantage from this, a special lens or mirror would focus the sunlight on the ground, keeping a base warm enough to produce electricity. Therefore, we can guarantee energy for the dark days. |
According to the samples collected on previous missions, moon dust has about 40/45% of oxygen by weight. That oxygen should be converted in useful oxygen to the human being and even help in the local production of fuel to the spaceships. The oxygen can also be recycled in the growth chamber. |
The structure of the camp building were already thought to help protecting itself with its 2/3-meter-thick walls. Furthermore, there is an extra protection tower against meteorites and radiations that receives and emanates energy to disperse and change the route of meteorites (through constant radiation discharges) to protect the moon camp. |
Describe a day on the Moon for one of your Moon Camp astronauts
Our camp follows the London time (UCT). In a typical day, our 4 astronauts wake up early (6h30), do some physical exercise to keep fit, do their morning hygiene, and have breakfast. At 1pm they take one hour break to have lunch. After lunch they work till 6pm. Then they gather to do their daily report as well as their routine health check-ups. |