Our major planet ’s Moon is already home to an Andy Warhol doodle , two abandonedgolf balls , and a message from theQueen herself . Later this yr , it will become the net resting place for hundreds of newfangled particular , some of which are arguably even more peculiar .
TheMoonArk , a four - chamber , 8 - inch - magniloquent snapshot of contemporary culture , will hitch a drive to the moon via the Space X Falcon 9 rocket as one of the privately - funded Moon mission in competition for theGoogle Lunar Xprize . The construction ’s four section represent the Earth , Metasphere , Moon , and Ether , respectively . inwardly will be a appeal of divers piece ofart , including microscopic sculpture , DNA from a genetically modify goat , and a mural of picture an artist texted to his wife over a five - year period . The whole matter will be hold together by an aluminum exoskeleton , each facet of which is base on the ratios of the golden triangle . to keep fuel costs down , the MoonArk ’s four chambers will weigh less than 6 ounces .
Similar artistic time ejection seat , like theGolden Recordaboard the Voyager , have been plunge into outer space in the past — but unlike those capsules , some of which are still traveling , this project is unequaled in that it will eventually be stationary . According to the MoonArk’swebpage , the carving will reside on the Moon ’s surface for “ potentially one thousand million of age . ”
Lowry Burgess , the project ’s loss leader and one of its over 200 artists , toldNPRhe hopes the capsule will finally be find by a species more evolve than our own . Among his contributions to the undertaking is a individual fall from a vial contain the blood from 33 different artist , as well as one from a similar mix of sample from the human beings ’s river .
After the MoonArk takes off later this year , infinite art partizan will still be able-bodied to gossip a copy exhibited here on Earth .
[ h / t : NPR ]
