One of the biggest challenges of the exploration of the Moon
is the survival of the crew and the lunar assets during the lunar night. The
environmental conditions on the lunar surface and its cycle, with long periods
of darkness, make any long mission in need of specific amounts of heat and
electricity to be successful. We have analyzed two different systems to produce
heat and electricity on the Moon's surface. The first system consists of Thermal
Wadis, sources of thermal power that can be used to supply heat to protect the exploration
systems from the extreme cold during periods of darkness.