Can cities be built on the moon? As long as the technology is in place, of course, there is no problem in building a city, and in the future, human beings will eventually develop the moon! No, the mainland's "Moon Town" plan is about to set sail.
According to the news from CCTV Finance and Economics "Economic Information Network" on January 28, Wu Yanhua, deputy director of the China National Space Administration, said: "(Our lunar development plan) tends to build ground scientific research facilities in the south pole of the moon, like our earth's south pole station and north pole station", that is to say, the mainland intends to build a great wall station similar to the earth's south pole at the south pole of the moon, Zhongshan station and other large scientific research stations, and to build a small town on the moon, it is necessary to have an energy system, communication and navigation system, etc.", it is a comprehensive scientific research facility. There are also life support systems when there are people on standby, and it is now planned to focus on these tasks by 2035. ”
We all know that the surface of the moon is not suitable for human survival, because there is neither air nor water on it, how to create a "moon town" on the moon? In the early stage, we will test related technologies on the lunar research station jointly established by China and Russia, such as energy supply, communication navigation and life support systems, and will test them before the manned moon landing.
There has long been news that the mainland is developing small nuclear power supply devices, and has achieved great success, the surface of the moon can also use solar power supply devices, so the energy problem is not big; the technical challenges of communication and navigation are not big; but it is not easy to survive and live normally on the moon, the lunar surface is not only without air and water from the earth, but also often threatened from outer space, because the moon does not have an atmosphere, then when the asteroid comet when the small body hits the lunar surface, It will not be blocked and ablated by the atmosphere as it is on Earth, so all small objects that coincide with the lunar orbit or are attracted by the gravitational pull of the moon will hit the lunar surface directly intact, and because the speed of small bodies in space is very high, even if the small bodies are small, they will carry a lot of energy, even if a transparent closed base is established on the lunar surface, those extremely fast small bodies can instantly shatter the protective shield, so it is unrealistic to build small towns on the lunar surface.
So how do you build a city on the moon? In fact, you can choose the underground of the moon, the moon itself is an excellent "meteorite shield", so the future city on the moon should be "dungeon", and the creation of an underground city must cost a huge amount of engineering, the moon's underground hollowing out to build a city is not easy to do, so the United States, The United States and Russia and other major lunar exploration countries are inclined to look for caves on the moon, there are many underground caves on the earth are huge space, such as in Vietnam there is a huge cave Han Song Cave, located in Vietnam's Wind Tooth List National Park, It's so big that there are lakes and forests inside, which is more than enough for people all over the world to live in today.
There are also many caves on the moon, and some have been discovered in China, the United States and Russia, and these caves will become important lunar resources in the future, and some lunar cities will be produced from them.
Liu Jizhong, director of the Lunar Exploration and Aerospace Engineering Center of the China National Space Administration, said: According to the current overall development progress, the mainland will complete the research, launch, scientific expedition and recovery of "Chang'e 6" and "Chang'e 7" around 2025, and carry out the research and development of "Chang'e 8"; among them, "Chang'e 6" will go to the south pole of the moon for sampling and return work, and "Chang'e 7" will conduct multi-faceted scientific exploration of the lunar antarctic region, especially the exploration of the moon's water distribution. And it will be launched and carried out before Chang'e 6; and "Chang'e 8" will carry out scientific exploration in the polar region and verify the key technologies for the follow-up of scientific research stations, and it is scheduled to complete the launch and scientific expedition of "Chang'e 8" before 2030, and Chang'e 8 is a "front station" for the lunar research station cooperated by the mainland and Russia.
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"CCTV Finance" January 28, 2022 article "The "Moon Town" plan is about to set sail!" The International Lunar Research Station opens a new journey of lunar exploration
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