/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15336047
>what are ppl even going to do on the moon other than plan flags and take selfies?
Actually study it in depth. Do you think Apollo and subsequent probes learned all there is to know about it? We've barely scratched the surface.

>>15171486
No dude you have to get irradiated on your months long tour of duty, cretins recommend it

>>14993037
>so Artemis is a rehash of Apollo for awhile
eeeh thats a little unfair as the furthest from the equator Apollo got was A15 at 26 deg. N

>>14760844
> 2:1 resonant orbit
incredibly underrated orbit

Go to Moon at wrong time of year
Get riddled by meteor storm and die
>Meteor showers: It is well known that the Earth experiences meteor showers when it encounters the debris left behind by comets; so too does the Moon, though perhaps at not exactly the same time. On Earth these showers are capable of producing spectacular celestial fireworks displays, delighting the public. On the airless Moon, however, these showers are swarms of high energy projectiles, producing fireworks only when they strike the surface with tremendous force. During such times, the rate of shower meteoroids can greatly exceed that of the sporadic background rate and may pose a hazard to spacecraft. Looking for meteor shower impacts on the Moon at about the same time as they occur here on Earth will yield important data that can be fed into meteor shower forecasting models, which can then be used to predict times of greater meteoroid hazard in near-Earth space.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/lunar/overview.html