The Moon’s Top Layer Alone Has Enough Oxygen from the regolith To Sustain 8 Billion People For 100,000 Years
Along with progress in space exploration, a lot of time and money has been put into developing technologies that could make it easier to use space resources. And finding the best way to make oxygen on the Moon has been the main goal of all of these efforts. In October, the Australian Space Agency and NASA made a deal to send a rover made in Australia to the Moon as part of the Artemis program. The rover’s goal is to collect rocks from the Moon that could be used to make oxygen on the Moon. Even though there is an atmosphere on the Moon, it is very thin and mostly made up of hydrogen, neon, and argon. It’s not the kind of gaseous mixture that mammals that need oxygen to live could live in. In spite of this, there is a lot of oxygen on the Moon. It’s just not in the form of gas. Instead, it is stuck in the layer of rocks and fine dust called regolith that covers the Moon’s surface. If we could get oxygen from the regolith on the Moon, would it be enough for people to live ther...