Sanctuary on the Moon is an international initiative to create a time capsule. It involves engraving drawings and texts on discs that reflect “what we are, what we know, what we do today” to then place them on the Moon with a future NASA mission and for them to remain there “so that one day archaeologists can find them and understand what our civilization was like in 2020, 2030”.
The goal is to preserve traces of humanity as it exists today for thousands, if not millions, of years to come.
Middle school students from our partner Eco Radio, from the Vincent Van Gogh college, in Blénod-lès-Pont-à-Mousson, in France, received three guests to talk about the project and the “Children of Planet Earth” competition: Hélène Pierson, scientific editor of Sanctuary on the MoonJuliette Sardet of the French National Commission for UNESCO, and Guillaume Monnain, illustrator specializing in popularizing science.
In this interview, they explain what the project is Sanctuary on the Moon et how children are involved in this project through a competition selecting drawings that will be sent to the Moon.
