43. Could we live inside the Moon? (A K2S Question)

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We probably will be living inside the Moon, at least at first. Since there is no atmosphere or magnetic field on the Moon we'll need to put something in the way of cosmic rays and the solar wind. Regolith works just fine if you have enough of it, so we'll probably bury our early lunar base modules under a couple of meters of regolith. From there we can start digging downward. Large tunnels could be constructed underground where humans could live and work. In fact this would be the preferred living environment since it would also protect humans from the wide swings in temperature on the surface and radiation from solar flares.

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Answer provided by Thomas Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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