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if we are ever to build cities on the moon, this is a neccessity. Europeans made maps of the american continents even though they only lived on the coast at fir
by political12345 4y ago
if we are ever to build cities on the moon, this is a neccessity. Europeans made maps of the american continents even though they only lived on the coast at first
- ttyprintk 4y agoI don’t agree; if we are ever to stake claims on the moon, this is a necessity. Those imperial Europeans sought mining investiture and the fountain of youth, to relieve their war budgets. Mapping the moon is not path-dependent on mapping the Americas, but would be interesting if it was.
- dotancohen 4y agoHow were the continental interiors mapped?
- defrost 4y agoIn multiple successive waves, each adding further detail. eg: Radiometric K-U-Th urface layer contour maps are still being composited for complete coverage of some continents. [1] https://www.usgs.gov/maps/aerial-gamma-ray-color-contour-maps-regional-surface-concentrations-potassium-uranium-thorium https://www.usgs.gov/maps/aerial-gamma-ray-color-contour-map...