Humanity's time capsule on the Moon

French engineer Benoit Faiveley leads a team of international scientists and artists with the collaboration of NASA and the goal is to send a time capsule to the moon for future generations to discover. The project called sanctuary on the moon is part of NASA's Artemis program and has the support of UNESCO and French President Emmanuel Macron. The objective of the project is to record 24 Sapphire disks, each with up to 7 billion micro pixels of information. The discs are currently being recorded with the very essence of humanity in the French commission for alternative energies and atomic energy, it is not the first time that a space mission aims to send a kind of backup for humanity to the moon, however , the sanctuary on the moon will be the first mission to transport male and female genomes and will also include mathematical equations, as well as scientific discoveries and works of art.

The team is made up of 11 scientists, engineers, astrophysicists, paleontologists, cosmologists and renowned artists, the mission capsule will use universal symbols of our knowledge and culture. The hope is that future generations of humans or possible other forms of intelligent life will one day find the capsule, in doing so they will be able to learn a lot about our civilization, according to the Moon Sanctuary website, the time capsule will communicate to future generations who We are, what we know and what we do and will contain the very essence of humanity. According to those responsible for the project, the moon is an ideal place for this type of capsule, its old surface will not be affected by natural disasters, just as on Earth, the capsule itself will be housed and a container designed to withstand harsh fluctuations in temperature. lunar temperature over millennia.