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Re:The Next Moon Landing Is Near, Thanks to Pioneering Engin... by WalterBright on Sunday August 13, 2017 @12:32AM (#15001497)
> scarcity of any resources

All we know about that is from a few bags of rocks. Nobody knows what the real situation is there, not even close. It might be like the proverbial caveman freezing to death sitting on a coal deposit.

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Re:The Next Moon Landing Is Near, Thanks to Pioneering Engin... by gus_massa on Sunday August 13, 2017 @11:17AM (#15003234)
There are also a lot of information get by various type of spectrometers in satellites. For example, you can read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Prospector#Scientific_ex...

> The Lunar Prospector GRS produced the first global measurements of gamma-ray spectra from the lunar surface, from which are derived the first "direct" measurements of the chemical composition for the entire lunar surface. This data effectively maps the distribution of various important elements across the Moon. For example, the Lunar Prospector GRS has identified several regions with high iron concentrations.

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Re:The Next Moon Landing Is Near, Thanks to Pioneering Engin... by WalterBright on Sunday August 13, 2017 @03:19PM (#15004426)
That says nothing at all about what is under the topsoil.
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