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Amazing! Moon surface can supply oxygen to entire earth population for 100,000 years

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A new study that borders on unbelievable suggests that just the Moon’s surface can supply oxygen required for Earth’s entire population for 100,000 years. Moon’s surface is oxygen-rich with its regolith made up of approximately 45% of the gas essential for life.

On average, one cubic meter of the Moon’s regolith carries 1.4 tonne minerals including 630 kgs of oxygen.

Around one cubic meter of lunar regolith contains 1.4 tonnes of minerals on average. It includes about 630 kg oxygen.

Humans require around 800 grams of oxygen per day. This means than 630 kg is enough for one person’s breathing requirement for 2 years.

This means that just a 10-meter deep layer of the Moon’s regolith has adequate oxygen to meet the needs of all the roughly 8 billion (800 crore) people on Earth for a period of 100,000 years

The thin lunar atmosphere does not have enough oxygen and is only made up of primarily of hydrogen, neon and argon gases. However, the Moon’s bedrock has enough oxygen trapped among rock and fine dust on the surface. This is not in gaseous form.

Recently, NASA and the Australian Space Agency signed a deal to send a rover under the Artemis program to collect samples of lunar rocks to study ways to extract breathable oxygen for humans.  Artemis Program is NASA’s mission to land a human back on the Moon. Agencies are spending time and investing in finding ways to extract the abundant resources in space for human use.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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May 5, 2022

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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