Posted on 05/05/2020 1:19:24 PM PDT by LibWhacker
The Moon is hollow according to some folks.
That’s just Dahak.
Of course the first thing I looked for were deposits of gold and silver, but I didn’t see any. Did I miss something?
rightwingcrazy , you might be crazy but youre right — it is a reduced resolution image with an unreadable legend. When you get the original and blow up the legend, you find the title and premise of the OP article are incorrect . This isn’t a mineralogical map, it is a geographical one showing what areas are covered by ejecta from various craters etc. I didn’t see a single mineral or mineralogically meaningful rock type mentioned in that extensive legend. Essentially the linked article is the equivalent of a low quality blog that didn’t comprehend what the map was.
A better description of the new map (original accompanying article from USGS ) is https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Moon/Geology/Unified_Geologic_Map_of_the_Moon_GIS_v2
We just need a backer.
That’s a chunk of change. It’d be terrible to have that much debt! But I’m sure the ‘rats are trying to figure out to pull it off, all of it going into their pockets.
I’ll join rightwingcrazy. I looked over the web site by USGS and saw absolutely no mention whatsoever of mineral description in the legend. It is barely a characterization of rock type and is mostly a terrain description.
Nobody has any journalistic integrity to speak of much these days. Misleading headlines abound.
I looked over the web site by USGS and saw absolutely no mention whatsoever of mineral description in the legend.
Haha, darn right they’d go! In a second flat. It’d make a great season, too (if not too many of them died!;-)).
Actually, I’d kind of like to go, if I could revert back to my 20s or early 30s (but I’d be scared to death, TTTT).
The economic picture you paint doesn't stand up to reality.
Maybe we should consult Al Gore on this, no? Moon in the balance and all.
The ending was awesome.
Todd is a failed miner as is the loser Turin.
Get some real minersm, not that bunch. Even Tony’s kids are better.
The cost is coming down, demand is growing, and we either take the high ground or let the Chinese have it.
Hey! Preserve the natural habitat of the moon darters!
Good luck mining the moon, you’ll find the moon is a harsh mistress.
you're probably looking for the data from Lunar Prospector. It was at 150km resolution though, rather disappointing. The raw data is publicly available somewhere, it could be reprocessed for higher resolution using a techniques similar to super-resolution. It was a pretty cheap mission as such things go, 70 million US$ in 1998. I imagine it would be possible to repeat it for better data at less that 20 million US$, using small sats (e.g. swarms of actively controlled micro-satellites). In fact I met a guy a few years ago who developed active x-ray spectrometers for remote asteroid survey (i.e. nearby within a few kilometers), probably his device could do the same trick for the moon.
I don’t see any minerals listed?
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