That was in large part the reason they canned Prospector the first time. But humans aren't going to go everywhere on the Moon, and a dead robot will...
I still wish there was a very long duration rover on the Moon, something like the early Prospector vehicles planned by the U.S., because the Moon is...
I collect books on the early space program, because the knowledge from those books is not reprinted. Did you know that on an early Viking rocket test...
I think by "they", it really means "we". We will need to map the world. Even if humans never get to the stellar system, our robots might, and mapping...
The problem is that the paper, what is available of it, makes no mention of any test simulations that suggest or confirm that a giant-impact scenario...
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
— Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi (1883)
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