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Smithsonian scientists propose a lunar biorepository for Earth’s biodiversity, leveraging the moon’s cold, permanently shadowed craters for cryogenic preservation. This innovative plan, inspired by the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, seeks to address challenges such as radiation and microgravity, and involves collaboration across several Smithsonian institutes.
The proposal takes inspiration from the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, which contains more than 1 million frozen seed varieties and functions as a backup for the world’s crop biodiversity in case of global disaster. By virtue of its location in the Arctic nearly 400 feet underground, the vault was intended to be capable of keeping its seed collection frozen without electricity. However, in 2017, thawing permafrost threatened the collection with a flood of meltwater.
The moon’s polar regions feature numerous craters that never receive sunlight due to their orientation and depth. These so-called permanently shadowed regions can be −410 degrees Fahrenheit —more than cold enough for passive cryopreservation storage. To block out the-damaging radiation present in space, samples could be stored underground or inside a structure with thick walls made of moon rocks.
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