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The moon is a pretty bad place for any long-term base...lunar dust is really hard on equipment. The l4/l5 points, though, are very interesting and there's a bun
by g-clef 11y ago
The moon is a pretty bad place for any long-term base...lunar dust is really hard on equipment. The l4/l5 points, though, are very interesting and there's a bunch of projects putting probes at the various l4/l5 points in the solar system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_objects_at_Lagrangian_points http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_objects_at_Lagrangian_p...
- titzer 11y agoThere's no atmosphere, so its unlikely Lunar dust would contaminate any equipment. It settles immediately after landing and doesn't blow around. Minimal shielded for touchdown would be all that's necessary.
- drzaiusapelord 11y agoPerhaps I wasn't clear. This would be an unmanned telescope. We're talking a one time landing of a piece of equipment. Dust will be a non-issue after the initial landing.
- g-clef 11y agoNot necessarily. One of the interesting results from LADEE was that the measured lunar dust increased a few hours before the probe landed (attributed possibly to the geminid meteor shower). There's lots of stuff that can kick dust off the lunar surface. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Atmosphere_and_Dust_Environment_Explorer#Preliminary_results http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Atmosphere_and_Dust_Envir...