• Question: if we plant trees on the moon could we live there?

    Asked by trolololol to Bob, Katie, Nisha, Sallie on 5 Jul 2012.
    • Photo: Bob Bonwick

      Bob Bonwick answered on 5 Jul 2012:


      Sadly it takes more than trees to terraform a planet. For a start what would the trees live on? there is no water, air of cardon dioxide for them to even begin to grow and oxygenate the moon. Also as the moon has no atmosphere we would have to engineer one of those too otherwise, with the moons low gravity it would all float away into the vacuum of space. Biodome research is going on, but to get one up to the moon would take billions of pounds worth of resouces and the benifits wouldn’t be great enough to justify it.

    • Photo: Sallie Baxendale

      Sallie Baxendale answered on 5 Jul 2012:


      Sadly not – the moon’s gravitational strength just isn’t strong enough to hold on to an atmosphere – any oxygen that the trees produced would just float away

    • Photo: Katie McDonald

      Katie McDonald answered on 5 Jul 2012:


      I agree with the other two – dead, floating trees probably aren’t good enough for us to live there!

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