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In fact, the moon is a lot more hostile than Mars. Off the top of my head: very little water, hardly any useful minerals, lunar night is long, temperature diff
by MattPalmer1086 4y ago
In fact, the moon is a lot more hostile than Mars. Off the top of my head: very little water, hardly any useful minerals, lunar night is long, temperature differences more intense, no air to stop micro meteorites, moon dust not weathered, so basically made of tiny shards of glass that sticks to everything electrostatically.
It is closer to earth though.
- taylodl 4y agoThe moon may have more water than you think and it has several useful minerals - in particular titanium. The moon certainly has drawbacks, but it doesn't suffer from months-long sand storms and it is much closer to earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_resources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_resources
- MattPalmer1086 4y agoThey're both quite hostile really! Given the choice (and no hope of a rescue mission) I still think I'd prefer Mars. Also gravity is 1/3rd rather than 1/6th.
- taylodl 4y agoYour chances of a rescue mission is much greater on the moon if we have multiple space stations with shuttles flying to the moon, and multiple moon bases in close enough proximity where one base can help out another if some crises were to occur. We could potentially build this sort of earth-moon infrastructure out over the next few decades.