You ’re wait at the future website of the Earth ’s first lasting substructure on the Moon ’s south perch . This icon was created this workweek using NASA Jet Propulsion Lab ’s new , supernumerary - powerful radar transmitting aerial dish , 70 m across , in the California Mojave desert . Says NASA researcher Scott Hensley , “ With these data [ from the raw radar transmitting aerial ] we can see terrain features as diminished as a house without even leave the office . ” Find out why the Moon ’s south magnetic pole is a great smirch for condo and what it would be like to hold up there below .
NASA decision maker Doug Cooke says , “ We now know the south pole has bill as high as Mt. McKinley and volcanic crater floors four times deeper than the Grand Canyon . ” So your Moon condo could have beautiful lot top prospect , or Trygve Halvden Lie snuggled at the base of a sweeping canon . Plus , there are more advantage , consort to NASA :
The fix has many advantage ; for one matter , there is evidence of piss frozen in deep coloured south polar crater . Water can be break into oxygen to breathe and hydrogen to burn as rocket fuel — or astronauts could simply drink it . Planners are also looking for “ flower of eternal light . ” grandiloquent polar passel where the sun never sets might be a good seat for a solar power place .
Anybody up for sand skiing on those magniloquent polar mass ?
New Radar Maps of the Moon[NASA ]
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