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 dangers of space and describe the living and working facilities in their Moon Camp.
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Is a camp with different places to be as:
Astronauts want to go to the moon to take different samples of the lunar surface, bring them to earth and then compare them with earth samples. We’ll need to build a camp because we are going to stay there for a long time so we need more installations.
Shackleton crater
We want to change the location of our ship during the expedition because the mission consists in taking samples from the moon surface in order to compare them with earth’s samples. For example we’ll compare the samples of the lunar poles with the samples of earth’s poles. We will transport the ship from one place to another with propulsors with a low power.
We are building everything in Earth and then we are going to transport it to the moon.
We’ll need several materials:
Taking in account strong heat and sand storms, our base is mainly made of Tungsten, a very resistant, but flexible material that can withstand very intense heat, an example where we have a lot of tungsten is the lab, you may notice too that our lab and play room has a lot of transparent material which seems fragile but it’s actually a thick layer of polycarbonate plastic, it’s very resistant to bumps. Apart from these two we also have plenty of titanium on the camp too.
Because we are going to build the ship on earth, it will be filled with oxygen. When some time has passed, and that oxygen has been transformed into carbon dioxide, we will send the waste to the greenhouse; so that due to photosynthesis this carbon dioxide will be transformed again into oxygen. This cycle will be repeated successively. In case there is any problem we have emergency oxygen tanks which will provide us the oxygen needed to complete the mission. Food will be taken from the greenhouse and also brought from the earth, so when we get out of the earth’s food, we can take food from the greenhouse. We’ll take water from earth and we will have enough because we will take a lot and the power will be taken from solar panels that will change of place from the moon depending on the sunny side of the moon.
We all know how important it is to keep fit on earth, then needless to say it’s as important on the moon. Our scientists not only have to work on the station but also outside with low gravity which they will need a lot of energy and force for. For this we have planned some special equipment so that our scientists can stay fit such as a stationary bike to strengthen leg muscles, a treadmill and a weightlifting machine. This equipment will be obviously different from the one we usually see on earth due to low gravity on the moon.
