Scientists by Endangered animals To Moon has announced a major project to deliver on
This storage center on the Moon will help us keep samples of the most endangered animal species on Earth.
Scientists claim that this will keep them safe from the dangers they pose on our own planet.
The researchers added that this could be a way to keep a long-lasting record of animals that we may lose on Earth. They will be ‘cryopreserved’ (frozen) to keep them in a useful condition.
In a new paper by a team led by Mary Hagedorn of the Smithsonian Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, DC, researchers envision a storage center on the surface of the moon.
It would be helpful to be located near the lunar poles as they are permanently in the shadow where the temperature stays below minus 196 degrees Celsius to act like a refrigerator.
This section contains related reference points (Related Nodes field).
Researchers say this will help in long-term storage of biological samples.
Placing them on the moon would mean that humans wouldn’t even need a constant power supply to manage them or keep the storage center cool. These could be two major threats to any such storage on Earth.
Moreover, the center will be protected from other threats, such as natural disasters, climate change and geopolitical conflicts.
These would be helpful for building near the lunar poles (Smithsonian Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute/NASA/Facebook)
Initially, the center could be used to store animal skin samples, including fibroblast cells.
The team has already started planning how it will work with samples of a fish called starry goby. This fish will be used as a sample and for testing.
Researchers say there are several challenges in this regard that could pose problems for the project. These include safely transporting samples to space and the moon, protecting them from radiation, and bringing countries and organizations from around the world together to build and then protect the center.
The center will be protected from other threats, such as natural disasters, climate change and geopolitical conflicts (Smithsonian Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute/Facebook)
He wrote in the paper that despite these challenges, the project needs to move forward because the threat of extinction is growing faster than our ability to preserve animal species in their natural habitats.
This research has been published in the journal Bioscience under the title Safeguarding earth’s biodiversity by creating a lunar biorepository.
#plan #send #endangered #animals #moon
2024-08-02 01:07:53
