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Moon Camp Pioneers Gallery 2019-2020

In Moon Camp Pioneers each team’s mission is to 3D design a complete Moon Camp using Fusion 360. 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 Girls

AE Nuno Santa Maria  Tomar    Portugal 17 to 18 years old

External viewer for 3d project

Project description

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Describe your Moon Camp project.

Our lunar base will be underground. Where the top part will be a haul then there will be a ramp that takes us to the underground part of the base where we will have the kitchen and cafeteria, bathrooms, gym, bedrooms, warehouse, vegetable garden, telecommunications, bar, workshops and power plant and panels solar.

Where do you want to build your Moon Camp?

To date, we have not yet been able to build a lunar base because the Moon does not have an atmosphere and a magnetic field that protects its inhabitants. The wide variation in temperatures between day and night, as well as high levels of radiation and the risk of impact from meteorites are some of the elements that condition our stay on the Moon. The best place to build a lunar space is at the poles because it is the only place where there is frozen water, in craters, where sunlight does not reach and the temperature never exceeds minus 150 degrees Celsius. According to NASA there is enough ice on the surface, water could become a resource for future explorations / stay on the Moon, potentially easier to access than the water detected under the lunar surface. In 2010, the discovery of ice on the surface at the north pole of the moon was announced.

How do you plan to build your Moon Camp? Describe the techniques and materials you would use.

Some scientists say that the lunar powder (regolith), can be a good building material, we would take robots to help us in the construction, or even take a 3D printer.

 

Water
Food
Electricity
Air

With energy, we have already managed to make a fusion (passing the water from solid state to liquid) we would be able to create a cylindrical “oven” covered by heated plates, by the energy provided by the solar panels, where the ice would be placed, inside that “Oven” will be a fusion where liquid water will be used for use of this lunar base.

To create food, a greenhouse would be made, where a base would be created on top of the lunar earth, then a structure where terrestrial earth and seeds from the earth would be placed. Everything would be inside that greenhouse where there will be oxygen and water for the plants to grow, that way we would feed humans.

Every month for two weeks, there is sun on the moon. The best way to produce energy on the moon would be solar panels that would be used in these sunny weeks, where half would be used and the other half would be stored in a battery backup box. These reserves would be used in the weeks when there is no sun.

Dusts from the lunar soil have 40% to 45% oxygen. A Dutch team has discovered that oxygen can be extracted from dust and oxygen can be produced with a mass spectrometer as it is extracted from the simulator.

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

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The environment on the Moon is very dangerous for the astronauts. Explain how your Moon Camp will protect them.

We would build a protective layer, where the lunar base would be where oxygen would exist and where it would protect us from meteors

Describe a day on the Moon for your Moon Camp astronaut crew.

The day-to-day life of a human being on the moon, begins with their food and personal hygiene, after that they will feed the machines and their plants. Then it is time for lunch, after lunch, studies start on how to improve the protection of the base and study the moon itself to improve your life there.



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