New Scientist SPACE - Breaking News - Experts poles apart over Moon landing sites: "Experts poles apart over Moon landing sites
* 17:19 06 February 2006
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* Kimm Groshong
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This map shows the landing sites of the Surveyor (yellow), Apollo (green) and Luna (red) missions, all largely centred around the lunar equator (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
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This map shows the landing sites of the Surveyor (yellow), Apollo (green) and Luna (red) missions, all largely centred around the lunar equator (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
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A healthy debate over whether humans should go to the Moon’s well-studied equatorial regions or its more enigmatic but sunny poles is emerging among lunar researchers, as NASA pushes towards a return to the Moon.
Reminiscent of debates seen during the planning stages of the Mars rovers mission, its central question asks whether robotic landers and later human missions should focus on the known equatorial regions or the promising, but still largely unknown, polar regions of the satellite."
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