How to build a road on the moon?
How to build a road on the moon?
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You know that in the coming years the world powers want to arrive and install bases on the moon that will serve as the beginning of the exploration and exploitation of lunar resources and industries, but the bases, mines and scientific facilities are going to need routes that unite them.
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The idea of melting soil rather sand to make roads is not a new idea, it was first proposed in 1933 in order to create routes in desert areas, this project of the European space agency is called PAVER, acronym in English for paving the way for the synthesis of regolith in large areas, regolith is what the dust, grains and small rocks that make up the lunar soil are called.
The project is directed by several German scientific institutions. In the images that we are going to see, a 12 kw carbon dioxide laser was used to melt a simulation of lunar dust. Authentic lunar dust would be very expensive, which is why a simulated one is used. By melting with the laser, a solid glass surface about 20 cm wide was created, also creating triangular structures that together could form a pavement that can be used for a road or a landing strip.
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I've used moon bases in stories, though never based a story in one. But I've marked this to remember the effect of yhe dust (I hadn't known about the rover difficulties)
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The Luna regolith is very harmful and many more so for humans, it irritates the eyes and is dangerous to inhale, many astronauts had problems.
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