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think and would hope we could do that already,mean we,r landing probes on comets so i would hope our closest satellite we could send more than a washing machine to find them things out.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: sparky31
Finding landing areas, high resolution mapping, long term radiation readings, and a lot of other data that is better to know BEFORE you land there planning to stay for months at a time. Data that Apollo didn't need, and wasn't able to collect.
well we,ve been there,so we,ve been told so even what the Astronauts have gathered in 5 mins is more than any probe is going to find out in 5 years.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: sparky31
And how exactly do you propose to do that, if you don't actually, you know, GO there? That's not something that can be done reliably from anywhere but actually being near the moon.
You don't go there with a manned mission without knowing that information FIRST.
exactly the moons right there and its getting ignored,for why?who knows
originally posted by: kalunom
It's our nearest celestial body. I don't understand why we aren't, or haven't been, sending everything we have there. I mean, Mars is cool and everything...and the Rosetta mission...but, the moon is RIGHT there. A mere quarter of a million miles away.
Honestly, I'm still stuck on why we aren't sending such more probes to delve the deeps of oceans here on earth. But, if we are to explore and expand into space...why not start with the moon? Seems logical to me.