The news was ostensibly the outcome of the space scientists’ effort to claim capacity for constructing moon village. A toxic and acrimonious environment on the living planet may have led the precocious minds to work in that direction.
It was not at all insensible, given the earthly existence we had lived till the day. Now, this is a bit more reasonable information for all of us. So the actual moment it appears to be coming might as well be astounding, or at least, not what we had thought of.
An expert claims construction of a ‘Moon Village’ could start within a decade as images appeared of what it might look like. Talking of structures, European Space Agency (ESA) adviser Aiden Cowley said the structures could even use the Moon’s soil to protect the buildings from radiation and temperatures of up to -190 Celsius.
Mr. Cowley further added: “It has to happen because if we’re really serious about the exploration of the moon, or Mars, or anywhere beyond that, this is the technology we need to master very soon.” He also plans to use regolith, lunar soil as thin as icing sugar, to build protective bricks used in one meter thick walls protecting the astronauts’ living quarters.
Pictures of the four-level cylindrical buildings show the base being used as both a study area and a launchpad for future missions to Mars.
Jan Worner, director-general of the ESA said it was his “intention” to build a permanent base on the lunar surface which was open for “different states around the globe” to utilize. He dubbed it the “Moon village“.