Microwaving moon soil? Yes, you heard right. Microwaving moon soil may help with the development of lunar landing pads and here's how. In the new space race, the United States will need a moon base, and building safe and affordable landing pads for spacecraft to land on will be crucial. These cushions should prevent lunar residue and particles from sandblasting everything around them at more than 10,000 miles each hour as a rocket takes off or arrives since there is no air to dial the rocket tuft back. However, it is unclear how these landing pads will be constructed because transporting heavy equipment and materials more than 230,000 miles into space quickly becomes prohibitively expensive. Because of this, researchers at the University of Central Florida are working on a NASA-funded project to find ways to construct lunar landing pads that are not only cost-effective and simple to build in space but also keep people and equipment safe. The work is driven by the safeguard and space fabricating organization Cislune and incorporates research from Arizona State College. The group has found that a technique that utilizations microwaves to soften lunar soil, combined with UCF-created beneficiation, or arranging, innovation, is perhaps the most ideal choice. The findings were presented to NASA in a report and recently published in the journal New Space.

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