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Lunar base - Illustration

author: Nasa/P.Rawlings/Novapix

reference: e-exl01-00008

Image Size 300 DPI: 44 * 30 cm

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.

Keywords for this photo:

1997 - CRATER - ICE - ILLUSTRATION - LUNAR BASE - LUNAR SURFACE - MOON - POLE - SATELLITE - SCIENCE FICTION - SOUTH POLE - SPACE - WATER -