The idea of building a lunar base has long captured the imagination, as well as the space life of a huge ship colony. But do we really want to live on the moon?
For a long time, space exploration has focused on the moon. In 1959, Soviet spacecraft photographed the moon for the first time from the opposite side, and in 1969, NASA sent a person to the lunar surface for the first time.
Overall, the data obtained through numerous missions suggests that there is no favorable place on the Moon, at least compared to Earth. Lunar days are about 14 Earth days with an average temperature of 123 degrees Celsius, while moon nights also last for 14 Earth days (due to the rotation of the Moon) with temperatures of minus 233 degrees Celsius.
"The only place where we can build a base to deal with these extremes strangely near the lunar pole." Rick Elfik, head of the research project probe LADE, said he studied the lunar atmosphere and dust environment. These areas can store large amounts of ice and low-level light from the sun for months.
Lunar afternoons are not blazing hot, but a permanent soft sunset with temperatures around 0 degrees Celsius due to the sun's low angle.
Being away from the polar regions can provide a very different set of attractions than those on earth. The vast lunar plains are made up of lava "mountains", the highest of which is 5.5 km. In some parts of the plains, there are some holes where lava may flow into caves in the subsoil – a fantastic adventure for lunar serology.
The Moon also has huge craters, up to 40 kilometers wide, such as the crater Aristarchus Crater.
Another spectacular sight of the Moon is the eclipse that occurs when the Earth blocks the Sun. From the moon, the Earth will look like a reddish-orange glow.
Although the Moon is 384,400 kilometers from Earth, it takes a little more than a second to send photos of family and friends coming home from vacation or eclipse.
The activity and motion on the Moon will also be very different from that of Earth. Since the Moon's gravitational field is 1/6 of Earth's gravitational pull, lunar colonists can jump and throw balls six times and farther out of Earth. Therefore, the distance between the goalposts on the football field must also be increased by 6 times.
Lunar athletes do not need to check the weather forecast. Because there is a very thin atmosphere, there is no weather on the moon, except for the so-called cosmic weather, which includes atmospheric particles that reach the size of golf balls and high-energy particles from solar flares.
Every day - the sun, no chance of rain!
Another potential danger - lunar earthquakes, or is the moon more correct? Seismometers left on the lunar surface during the U.S. Apollo mission showed that the moon was still seismically active, with even rare hourly seismic measurements of 5.5 on the Richter scale. These impacts are enough to cause structural damage to the building. So don't rush to sell your earthly home and move to the moon.