The project, called “Sanctuary on the Moon”, is part of the NASA’s CLPS program and is supported by UNESCO.
French engineer Benoit Faibeley is leading a team of international scientists and artists, with collaboration from NASA, and the aim is to send a time capsule to the Moon for future generations to uncover.
The project’s aim is to engrave 24 sapphire discs, each with up to 7 billion micropixels of information. The discs are currently being engraved with “the very essence of humanity” at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission .It’s not the first time a space mission has aimed to send a “backup for humanity” to the Moon. However, Sanctuary on the Moon will be the first mission to carry male and female genomes.
The mission’s capsule will use universal symbols of our knowledge and culture. The hope is that future human generations, or other intelligent life forms, will one day find the capsule. By doing so, they will be able to learn a great deal about our civilization. , the time capsule will tell future generations “who we are, what we know, and what we do” and it will contain “the very essence of humanity.
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