NASA plans to have a lunar science lab manned by robots on the Shackleton Crater

NASA has plans to set up a lunar science lab on a crater on the Moon and have, tentatively, zeroed on Shackleton Crater. The lab would be controlled by robots and, in the opinion of NASA, the crater on the moon’s South Pole could be turned into ‘an oasis of warm sunlight surrounded by a desert of freezing cold darkness’.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 7 July 2015.

The thinking is that the terraforming experiment by making use of rovers would make the crater environment more similar to that on Earth and would allow robots working inside it to analyze materials brought back from excavations. The area that has been chosen for the ‘lab’ would be the size of a football field – it is in a valley about twice the size of Washington DC and is surrounded on all sides by 14,000 ft (4,267 metre) peaks.
NASAs plans are to fill the crater with solar-powered transformers because these would be essential to provide power for the robotic scientists and, also, heat the space.
Incidentally, the crater that is named after the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, is two miles deep and more than 12 miles wide.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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