Re: Smart-1 Images of the Moon

From: Szaki (szaki10_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:33:47 -0800

They should've dump a dozen or so robots on the Moon surfuce, crawling
around for years, finding who knows what.
It can be done fraction of the price of one of the Mars mission.
JS

"Ernie Wright" <erniew@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Tim Killian wrote:
>
>> Hasn't the Moon been completely mapped (photos and laser altimeter) by
>> previous missions?
>
> No. The state of our knowledge about the Moon's surface is much worse
> than it is for either Venus or Mars. The only post-Apollo mapping was
> done by Clementine in the mid-90's, as far as I know, and the quality
> and completeness of the data it returned isn't comparable.
>
> A quick way to see this is to compare the globes offered by Sky and
> Telescope.
>
> http://skyandtelescope.com/shopatsky/category.asp?catalog%5Fname=SkyPub&category%5Fname=Atlases%2C+Maps+%26+Globes&SUBCATEGORY=Globes&Page=1
>
> The "NASA Moon Globe" uses the same hand-painted map used on globes sold
> by Rand McNally 35 years ago.
>
> - Ernie http://home.comcast.net/~erniew
>

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