Life on moon

Mahima · #1 Oct 30, 2007, 10:06 AM

is it possible to take water, plants and other necessary materials to moon and try to make them work in there?? what if we take plants as well as carbondioxide nad spill water in the moon? will the moon's gravity be able to pull them towards it and will the water evaporate in the outerspace or will go inside the moon's surface??

NeedKarma · Oct 30, 2007, 10:08 AM

"The temperature on the moon varies from -387 Fahrenheit (-233 Celsius), at night, to 253 Fahrenheit (123 Celsius) during the day. Because the moon has no atmosphere to block some of the sun's rays or to help trap heat at night, its temperature varies greatly between day and night."

CaptainRich · Oct 30, 2007, 10:12 AM

There are other factors that would say, "No!"
Mean surface temperature (day) 107°C
Mean surface temperature (night) -153°C
Read some of this:
The Moon

ballengerb1 · Oct 30, 2007, 10:58 AM

There is gravity on the moon so the water will be pulled down into the moons surface but it will evaporate very quickly. If you deposit water on the moon during the day it will boil off. At night it would freeeze and sublimate.

ebaines · Oct 30, 2007, 12:35 PM

There has been some evidence that there could be water ice in craters at the moons poles, where the walls of the crater would keep the crater floor in perpetual shadow and hence protected from the heat of the sun. There could be water just below the surface there, but I don't believe any has ever been detected. As for life itself on the moon - no way. However, when the Apollo 11 astronauts returned from the moon in July 1969 they were put into quarantine for 3 weeks just in case, to make sure they hadn't picked up any "moon bugs," but this was deemed unnecessary for subsequent missions.

JimGunther · Jun 30, 2008, 10:18 AM

In addition to what has been said above, the size of the Moon prevents it from having enough gravity to maintain an atmosphere, that's why it doesn't have one now.

Unknown008 · Jul 1, 2008, 05:04 AM

And suppose you made a kind of 'green house' or 'glass house' there? To regulate the temperature, to provide the light and other things needed...

JimGunther · Jul 1, 2008, 08:49 AM

Once our technology and motivation advance to do such things, I am sure it could be done. Because of radiation from the Sun and other sources, and the fact that objects of all sizes are flying around in space all the time, it would probably be safer to have underground structures on the Moon. Tons of matter from space fall on the Earth every day.

Unknown008 · Jul 3, 2008, 03:48 AM

Yes, you got a point there. Especially with the scars on the moon from the meteroids and other stuff... Better be on around there then. What if the future technology enabled us to produce oxygen giving the plants the time to properly grow and prolifer? That would be great don't you think so? 'cauz the plants there will take time to grow and we need plants to eat as basic foodstuff if we want to make life there.

JimGunther · Jul 3, 2008, 07:01 AM

For sure! We might even get to the point where we develop "force fields" like they have on Star Trek to protect our structures from falling objects and radiation.



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