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The lunar surface is constantly changing due to collisions. So, what are we preserving exactly? https://www.space.com/34372-new-moon-craters-appearing-faster-t

• colanderman 5y ago
  Trees constantly change. Why preserve a forest? (Not to mention, OP was talking about large obscuring dust clouds. Not pockmarks.)
  • scoopertrooper 5y ago
    Nobody is talking about chopping down the moon. I think OP doesn't realise how big the moon is. Those asteroid impacts kick up massive plumes of smoke, but we don't really notice it because the Moon is pretty freakin big.
    • doodlebugging 5y ago
      OP here. Actually not OP, just top of this thread. I'm actually a geophysicist. I do have a pretty good idea not only of how large the moon is, but of where it is in relation to earth, it's age, common rock types found there, origin theories, its effect on earth, its cultural usage down through time, etc. In my own work I have used knowledge of tidal effects to help me correct seismic data to optimize subsurface resolution so that companies could determine whether there was a resource there that could be economically exploited. I appreciate you taking the time to read my original post and to comment. This is exactly the sort of discussion I figured it would generate.