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Moon undergoes extreme temperature fluctuations from day to night, resulting in boil off. There are spots on the South Pole that never see sunlight, so it’s our
by ganteth 3y ago
Moon undergoes extreme temperature fluctuations from day to night, resulting in boil off. There are spots on the South Pole that never see sunlight, so it’s our best bet for finding large deposits of water (as ice).
- Symmetry 3y agoThe ice would also be pretty close to the Moon's peaks of eternal light[1] where you don't have to have your solar panels spend half of every month in darkness. So basically where you'd want to live on the Moon if you had to pick somewhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_of_eternal_light https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_of_eternal_light
- WorldMaker 3y agoIsn't that also related to why the Lunar Gateway (the proposed space station component of the current Artemis project at Nasa) was proposed to be in a lunar polar orbit?
- szundi 3y agoYou can easily reach every spot froma polar orbit as the moon rotates under your orbit