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How can we make the Moon habitable?

How can we make the Moon habitable?

Yup, that’s right, to make the Moon habitable, we’re going to need to disassemble and relocate two planets. There’s good news here – all that relocation is going to involve a lot of heat, so our newly fortified Moon will be molten. That’s going to give it a magnetic field.

How much would it cost to terraform the Moon?

Reaching the moon would cost about $10 billion — estimates range from $7 billion and $13 billion — with an additional $28 billion to $52 billion being spent on the construction of base-related structures.

Why can’t we build a base on the Moon?

It would be a good place for learning and testing new technologies. But it would not become a permanent settlement because the moon has no atmosphere and a very low gravity. It is also quite expensive to make a colony on another world.

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Would it be possible to create an atmosphere on the moon?

No. The moon has just 1/6 of the Earth’s gravity. Any atmosphere that we could manage to create there (a huge and probably impossible challenge) would simply float into space in a very short time. A thick, dense atmosphere like Earth’s would never be possible.

Would you create an atmosphere on the moon?

For many years, scientists thought the moon had no atmosphere at all. Turns out that’s not quite the case. The moon has a very thin atmosphere, called an exosphere, that’s about 100 trillion times less dense than our own life-giving blanket of gases. Sadly, the moon has neither.

How much money would it cost to colonize the moon?

NASA Chief Says Returning Astronauts to the Moon Could Cost $30 Billion. It was always going to be expensive, but NASA’s first cost estimate for the agency’s push to land humans on the moon by 2024 is finally here — and it’s surprisingly cheap.

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Can you create atmosphere?

An Atmosphere is vital for any terraformed planet. Unfortunately, there are many planets who lack it. Creating it is possible in two ways: by adding it from other sources (diverting comets or carrying it from other celestial bodies) or by creating it from existing rocks.