L3-DVT-ANLG-ETCH
ESSENTIAL
PRESERVATION
Level 3 · hardware
Stone Tablet / Etched Plates
Stone or Sintered-Regolith Etched Plates for Ultimate Durability
Stone (lunar basalt) or sintered-regolith plates with mechanically etched human-readable inscriptions — ultimate durability for top-level mission records.
Purpose
Stone (lunar basalt) or sintered-regolith plates with mechanically etched human-readable inscriptions — ultimate durability for top-level mission records.
Context
Child of L2-DVT-ANLG within the Lunar Ark system
Principles
- ▸Lunar basalt or sintered-regolith plates
- ▸Mechanically etched inscriptions
- ▸Geological-timescale durability
- ▸Mission summary + Ark location
- ▸Multilingual + universal symbols
Typical implementations
- ▸Pioneer/Voyager golden record concept
- ▸Stone-tablet historical preservation
- ▸Long Now Foundation 10000-Year Clock messaging
Lunar considerations
- ▸Top-level mission summary for ultimate future
- ▸ISRU material — fully self-sufficient
- ▸Long Now / Voyager-style messaging
Specifications
Functional
| primary function | Stone (lunar basalt) or sintered-regolith plates with mechanically etched human-readable inscriptions — ultimate durability for top-level mission records. |
| plate count | 10 |
| life years | 100000000.0 |
Physical
| mass kg | 100 |
| materials | Lunar basalt, Sintered regolith, Diamond tooling |
| vacuum compatibility | True |
Operational
| power consumption w | 0 |
| thermal range c | -40, 70 |
| lifetime years | 100000000.0 |
| mtbf hours | 10000000000.0 |
Interfaces
Provides
- Ultimate-durability reference
Requires
- Plate production from ISRU
Cite this entry
Lunar Ark Codex. "Stone Tablet / Etched Plates" (L3-DVT-ANLG-ETCH). Retrieved 10 September 2026, from https://lunarark.com/entry/L3-DVT-ANLG-ETCH
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