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Most attractive resource on the Moon
The most attractive resource on the moon will be the one that most reduces the costs to taxpayers of proposed moon missions. Water seems the most likely candidate.
Any mining on the moon must contend ...
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Images of Starry night sky (maybe with milky way galaxy) from the Moon?
There seems to be two separate but related questions being asked, one is a simple yes/no question, are there any images of stars that have been taken from the Moon, and the same question for the Milky ...
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Images of Starry night sky (maybe with milky way galaxy) from the Moon?
There certainly are photos of the starry sky from the moon. The best I can find are the shots taken by Apollo 16's ultraviolet camera, which was shielded from the sun and pointed up to keep the ground ...
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Most attractive resource on the Moon
At this stage, I believe the most attractive resource should be titanium iron ore (Ilmenite.) Firstly, it can be used to obtain water resources through hydrogen reduction. Secondly, it provides metal ...
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Images of Starry night sky (maybe with milky way galaxy) from the Moon?
I haven't done a thorough survey yet but the first telescope on the Moon was set up by the crew of Apollo 16.
It was an ultraviolet system - observing wavelengths that can't pass through Earth's ...
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Why can't lunar rovers survive long duration nights?
Yes, generally, the things that kill an unpowered probe are the physical changes associated with extremely low temperatures. Even if the processor itself continued working correctly, at the extremes ...
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Why can't lunar rovers survive long duration nights?
First of all, there are possibilities to keep a (uncrewed) lunar mission alive for longer than a lunar day and they have already been used: e.g. Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package, which used ...
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Why do we need to make probes land on other planets or moons?
You could vaporize rocks and look at what kind of light it shines. This might be possible some day from further than a few centimeters but not yet.
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Can we use a rail gun on the moon to launch stuff directly to mars?
I disagree. Pointing accuracy is not significant. Just get product into Moon orbit. Moon based subgrade rail gun only sends fuel containers, with huge volume H20 into moon orbit(once base station is ...
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How did sulphur come up to the surface of the moon?
The moon's composition is largely similar to the earth's crust, the earth's crust contains plenty of sulphur and sulphur compounds too.
My guess on other missions is they either weren't looking for it ...
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