The Moon is set to become a gas station, of sorts, allowing rockets to re-fuel for their return to Earth, or fill up for their onward journey to Mars. Generating power on the moon is vital. You need power to create oxygen. And you need oxygen, in part to allow human visitors to breathe, but primarily as rocket fuel.
NASA’s first lunar landing since Apollo 17 is planned for 2025 when four crew members are due to blast off in Artemis III.
Prof Gordon of the Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics' solution is to install a ring of photovoltaic solar panels – as used on Earth – around one of the Moon’s poles so that at any point in its rotation, some of them are in the sun and generating power.
“On the moon, there’s no atmosphere, so if you can point at the sun, you obtain the same solar intensity,” he says.
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