To what extent can the moon be terraformed?

Question

Self-contained, sealed cities are doable, but how about atmospheric change? Is the radiation level a major barrier? Would water and oxygen stay put?

Answer 1

to terraform the moon wouldnt be smart. only under structures a moon base for instance. but to make it like a small version of earth is impossible and would make earth unihabitable. the moon is pretty much a big rock. the little gravity and little atmoshpere it does have are left overs from earth when the earth was forming. the closest planet that can be terraformed is mars. it has an orbit as in nite and day. and it has water just frozen at present. it dont have a breathable atmoshpere however if we wanted to get rid of some nukes that would be the place to do it. if some dust can get raised up that would help block some of the sun's deadly rays. and once u melt the water u'ld also release carbondioxide which is a must  because without it u couldnt have plants. but not only would that be released but oxygen as well.

Answer 2

It's unlikely that it would be possible to terraform the moon to a useful degree.

The gravity is simply too minimal to hold an atmosphere, even if the gases were released on the moon - it would simply drift off into space.  And without a molten core and magnetic field, cosmic radiation and solar flares would indeed be a major concern - no shielding to protect anything outside.

Answer 3

The gravity is too low any atmosphere when bombarded by sun light can reach escape velocity.

Answer 4

No gravity means no atmosphere.  No atmosphere means no protection from the sun's ultraviolet rays.  Not possible.

Answer 5

You can't do it. Back in the day(300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,-isn... this crazy?-000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 B.C.) the Moonians didn't head the call of the destruction from global warming, so they kept driving there SUV's all over the moon and the moon couldn't take it any more so it finally gave out. It will take a Bazillion years for the damage to subside, so we will probably not see the moon back to its former glory in our life time.

Or at least this decade.