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Engineers Propose Building ‘Lunar Ark’ In Moon’s Lava Tubes – Interesting Engineering
The ark would store the DNA of 6.7 million Earth species in a relatively undisturbed space environment. Read all about it here.
University of Arizona researcher Jekan Thanga has proposed a solar-powered “lunar ark” to act as a “modern global insurance policy” for humanity.
The concept would store cryogenically frozen seed, spore, sperm, and egg samples from 6.7 million Earth species.
Thanga and a group of his undergraduate and graduate students unveiled their lunar ark concept, in a paper presented over the weekend during the IEEE Aerospace Conference.
The group proposed that the ark could be placed inside any of 200 lava…
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