Nasa want to turn the moon into a lunar science lab: Fleet of robots could terraform
Channel: Aliens insider
Date: 09/07/2015

Nasa want to turn the moon into a lunar science lab: Fleet of robots could terraform the football pitch-sized Shackleton Crater 
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Nasa plans to transform a lunar crater into a science laboratory for robots.

Shackleton Crater on the moon’s South Pole could be turned into ‘an oasis of warm sunlight surrounded by a desert of freezing cold darkness’ according to the space agency'.

The terraforming experiment using rovers would make the crater environment more similar to Earth’s and allow robots working inside it to analyse materials brought back from excavations.

The area chosen for the ‘lab’ would be the size of a football field, lying in a valley about twice the size of Washington DC.

The crater is surrounded on all sides by 14,000 ft (4,267 metre) peaks.
Nasa plans on filling the crater with solar-powered transformers, which would be essential to provide power for the robotic scientists and heat the space.