Re: re:LSE-CM/ISS, mining/exporting He3

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Date: 01/21/05 

Date: 21 Jan 2005 01:40:36 -0800

BradGuth wrote:
> A little off topic, though clearly demonstrating why we've needed to
> further exploit the moon, and I'll certainly edit this contribution
> into something other than what it seems to be suggesting.
>
> It's interesting that the ongoing Mars imaging that's utilizing a
> somewhat outdated CCD capability, yet having acquired images of a
> much greater distance is capturing such terrific details at 50
> cm/pixel, whereas similar efforts of our moon and of such efforts
> being half the camera distance can't ever seem to manage better than
> tens of meters per pixel, even though the lighting is certainly
> better (even earthshine is nearly as good as any Mars day) and
> there's even less atmosphere getting in the way.
>
> Whereas MOC with an average altitude of supposedly 378 km and minimum
> of 171 km is having no trouble with the likes of providing 50
> cm/pixel. Perhaps the SMART-1 mission will soon obtain similar if not
> even better resolutions of our moon, as to capturing the likes of
> those massive lander remains and otherwise enormous tracks (100 fold
> larger) as compared to anything making tracks on Mars.
>
> Thus apparently we need to get our robotics and those remote SAR
> aperture image receiving modules actually onto our moon, as our best
> CCD satellite cameras can't hardly manage squat, though again that
> may not be the case for the SMART-1 mission. Then perhaps we should
> be deploying Javelin Probes or having those of the decade delayed
> LUNAR-A mission implanted so that we're obtaining that essential 3D
> look-see into the moon, an essential first step for eventually
> establishing the base camps on behalf of creating the lunar space
> elevator(LSE-CM/ISS).
>
> http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-javelin-probes.htm
>
> Regards, Brad Guth / GASA~IEIS
> http://guthvenus.tripod.com/lunar-space-elevator.htm
>
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Maybe the Fox channel was right, and NASA doesn't want too high
resolution pictures of the Moon, because the remains of the moon
landing aren't there?-Jitney

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