: Moon’s surface has enough oxygen to sustain 800 crore humans for 1 lakh years – but there’s a catch #IndiaNEWS Alongside advances in space exploration, we have recently seen much time and money

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Moon’s surface has enough oxygen to sustain 800 crore humans for 1 lakh years – but there’s a catch #IndiaNEWS
Alongside advances in space exploration, we have recently seen much time and money invested into technologies that could allow effective space resource utilisation. And at the forefront of these efforts has been a laser-sharp focus on finding the best way to produce oxygen on the Moon.In October, the Australian Space Agency and NASA signed a deal to send an Australian-made rover to the Moon under the Artemis program, with a goal to collect lunar rocks that could ultimately provide breathable oxygen on the Moon.Although the Moon does have an atmosphere, it is very thin and composed mostly of hydrogen, neon and argon. It is not the sort of gaseous mixture that could sustain oxygen-dependent mammals such as humans.That said, there is actually plenty of oxygen on the Moon. It just is not in a gaseous form. Instead, it is trapped inside regolith – the layer of rock and fine dust that covers the Moon’s surface. If we could extract oxygen from regolith, would it be enough to support human life on the Moon?Breadth of oxygenOxygen can be found in many of the minerals in the ground around us. And the Moon is mostly made of the same rocks you will find on Earth (although with a slightly greater amount of material...Read more

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