NASA Announces Plan to Ignite Fire on Lunar Surface

NASA’s plan to light a fire on the Moon!. According to NASA, in the near future, a fire will be lit on the Moon’s surface. The purpose of doing this is to understand how flames behave in emergency situations beyond Earth’s surface. On NASA’s FM2 experiment webpage, or “Flammability of Materials on the Moon,” we read:. Since fire can pose a catastrophic risk to spaceflight and human exploration in harsh conditions, FM2 will be a critical step in determining material flammability and safety in future missions. Emily Johnson, the project manager for this experiment:. Some materials, when they burn, tend to separate from the main body in clumps resembling tiny teardrops. Now imagine that if you were in a microgravity or partial-gravity environment, these little droplets would turn into small fireballs that, while floating, could set other things on fire. That is why understanding the various properties of materials at different flame scales is extremely important. Read the translation by Ghazal Ziyari