¿Los humanos van a habitar la Luna?, aquí te contamos todo

El deseo de los humanos de habitar otros planetas en un futuro, eso parece estar cerca de llegar con esta iniciativa.

Deseos de habitar Marte

While you’ve spent the past 2000 days on planet Earth, our Curiosity rover has been exploring another world entirely. The rover just hit a new milestone: its two-thousandth sol on Mars. A sol is slightly longer than an Earth day at 24 hours and 40 minutes. This mosaic taken by the rover looks uphill at Mount Sharp, which Curiosity has been climbing since 2014. Highlighted in white is an area with clay-bearing rocks that scientists are eager to explore; it could shed additional light on the role of water in creating Mount Sharp. The mosaic was assembled from dozens of images taken by Curiosity’s Mast Camera (Mastcam). It was taken on Sol 1931 back in January. The formation of clay minerals requires water. Scientists have already determined that the lower layers of Mount Sharp formed within lakes that once spanned Gale Crater’s floor. The area ahead could offer additional insight into the presence of water, how long it may have persisted, and whether the ancient environment may have been suitable for life. Curiosity landed on the Red Planet in August 2012 and has traveled 11.6 miles (18.7 kilometers) in that time. In 2013, the mission found evidence of an ancient freshwater-lake environment that offered all the basic chemical ingredients for microbial life. Having studied more than 600 vertical feet of rock with signs of lakes and groundwater, Curiosity’s international science team concluded that habitable conditions lasted for at least millions of years. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS #nasa #space #mars #redplanet #curiosity #rover #spacecraft #mountsharp #planet #solarsystem #life #search #science #rocks #explore #2000 #sol #day

Una publicación compartida de NASA (@nasa) el 24 Mar, 2018 a las 8:10 PDT

Cuando el hombre llegó a la Luna por primera vez el deseo más grande que le surgió fue el de algún día, cuando la Tierra no fuera habitable, poder habitar otro planeta. Es por eso que la NASA se ha planeado lograr habitar Marte.

La Luna como nuevo hogar

This view of Saturn’s dramatic, icy moon Dione, aptly named for a Titaness in Greek mythology, was eyed by our Cassini spacecraft on July 23, 2012 at a distance of approximately 260,000 miles. Dione, measuring about 698 miles across, has a density that suggests that almost a third of the moon is made up of a solid core (probably silicate rock) with the remainder of its material being water ice. At Dione’s average temperature of -304 degrees Fahrenheit, ice is so hard it behaves like rock. Astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovered Dione (1684) and three of Saturn’s other moons — lapetus (1671), Rhea (1672) and Tethys — as well as the large gap in Saturn’s rings, now called the Cassini division. His namesake, our Cassini spacecraft, ended its more than 13 years exploring his findings and making many more with a dive into Saturn’s atmosphere on Sept. 15, 2017. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute #nasa #space #science #cassini #saturn #planets #planet #solarsystem #distance #voyage #journey #picoftheday #miles #exploration #discovery #rings #astronomy

Una publicación compartida de NASA (@nasa) el 12 Mar, 2018 a las 11:11 PDT

Según el Centro de Investigación de Colonias Espaciales de Japón explicó su plan de instalar colonias de humanos en el año 2030 en la Luna; esto con el fin de explorar este lugar y poder llegar en algún momento a habitarla en su totalidad.

¿Cómo serían las colonias?

An astronaut’s view. This image, captured by NASA astronaut Scott Tingle, shows off the beauty of our home planet. He posted this picture to social media on Friday saying, “The Red Sea and the Nile – what a beautiful sight from @ISS!” Currently, six people are living and working on the orbiting laboratory, conducting important science and research that will not only benefit life here on Earth, but will help us venture deeper into space than ever before. Credit: NASA/Scott Tingle #nasa #space #earth #redsea #nile #planet #solarsystem #home #astronaut #view #beautiful #pictureoftheday #science #research #spacestation #international

Una publicación compartida de NASA (@nasa) el 11 Feb, 2018 a las 9:52 PST

Según lo explicó Chiaki Mukaila estas colonias se encuentran en fabricación, pero todos los implementos de supervivencia tendría que ser trasportados desde la Tierra; la idea es que estas bases sean autosuficientes. “Si vamos a la Luna, necesitaremos usar sus recursos y hacer que todo sea eficiente mientras reciclamos”, aseguró la científica japonesa encargada de diseñar y llevar a cabo este proyecto tan importante para la civilización.

Los problemas

Observing images of craters on Mars provides scientists insight into the water that carved them and the Red Planet’s history of water activity. What do you think this tadpole-shaped impact crater says about the water that used to fill it? Based on the terrain-height information and knowing that water always flows downhill, scientists were able to infer that the water in the tadpole crater was flowing down, and outward. The image was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on our Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona #nasa #space mars #earth #moon#redplanet #orbiter #hirise #mro #nasabeyond #science #tadpole

Una publicación compartida de NASA (@nasa) el 7 Feb, 2018 a las 3:21 PST

Los científicos japoneses afrontan varios retos con este proyecto. Los desafíos más grandes son la creación de espacios que se puedan autoabastecerse de energía, agua, oxigeno; y se puedan cultivar alimentos. Todos estos contratiempos se irán solucionando paulatinamente a medida de que vayan logrando avances significativos de tecnología y de este proyecto científico; el cual sin duda alguna será uno de los más importantes en la historia de la humanidad.