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Do you see craters or bumps on the moon’s surface?
A picture of the moon’s south pole was taken in May by Resilience, a robotic lander operated by the Japanese company Ispace ...
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Trillion dollars' worth of platinum waiting to be mined on the moon
Mining craters on the moon could be more practical than extracting precious metals from asteroids, but it might also ...
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Scientists Say There's Over a Trillion Dollars of Platinum Waiting to Be Extracted From the Moon's Craters
Platinum Researchers have suggested that there could be over $1 trillion worth of platinum lurking under the surface of the ...
This is the asteroid that could crash into the Moon in 2032 and leave a crater visible from Earth
By February 2024, NASA had ruled out any Earth strike. The updated odds dropped to near zero, and 2024 YR4 was officially ...
The far side of the Moon may soon host the world's most sensitive telescope, shielded from earthly interference
NASA is advancing plans to construct a radio telescope on the Moon's far side – a location uniquely shielded from the ...
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Platinum in the Moon’s $1 trillion craters — scientists find probable deposits
According to the results of the new study, scientists have determined that under the surface of the Moon platinum and other ...
The Moon once had magnetic fields as strong as Earth’s
The moon may be silent and still today, but billions of years ago, it likely crackled with magnetic activity. Though the moon ...
A Japan-based company will attempt to land on the moon. Here’s why its lander spent months, not days, in space
Japan-based company Ispace will attempt to safely land its Resilience spacecraft on the moon this week after the lunar lander ...
Private Japanese lunar lander heads toward a touchdown in the moon's far north
A private lunar lander from Japan is closing in on the moon, aiming for a touchdown in the unexplored far north ...
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Do You See Craters or Bumps on the Moon’s Surface?
Some people see bumps, but others see craters. Which do you see? Craters Bumps The moon is not made of cheese, nor is it covered in dome-like bumps. It is pocked with craters. If we flip the image ...