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Lunar base - Illustration

by

Nasa/P.Rawlings/Novapix

Reference

e-exl01-00008

Date

2006-12-08

Ice deposits suggested Clementine spacecraft in peretually shadowed craters at the lunar South Pole open new possibilities for human expansion into the Solar System. In this unique location, a solar-powered colony could produce fuel and launch spacecraft from the Moon's one-sixth gravity. Water from potential ice resources or the regolith circulated through the dome's cells could attenuate dangerous radiation.