http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_moondust_060223.html
Looks like NASA is taking this up, so my work is done. They wanna utilize magnetrons (microwaves) to solidify the regolith. I was hoping this would be a cheap low maintenance observatory. Sweeping the dish is expensive. The...
I have a question regarding the compressibility of a nanodiamond. It is regarding the steric accuracy of a diamond probe surface.
Assuming a block of singly nucleated nanodiamond 100 X 100 X 100 nm. Assuming a section *magically* cut out of the middle measuring 75 X 75 X 1 nm. The goal is to...
The "bring back rocks" economy works for a while. The Apollo missions brought back a few hundred kg and a single mission could easily double this. I think you could easily fetch $1/mg. But for larger payloads, I'm thinking the market would start to bottom out, and you would need to bring back...
More digging around has revealed bad news. I think the only EM wavelengths that could handle geometries as imprecise as a crater basin would be long radiowaves. These need a metal antannae dish (right?). A small iron meteorite impacting would form a nice breccia "dish", but the debris from...
www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jmelosh/impact_crater_collapse.pdf
This is the only paper I could find referencing the geometry of lunar impact craters. They are formed very differently than are earth impact craters. A polar lunar crater would always be pointed straight up or straight down; earth would...
I've an idea that many people tell me has already been discussed elsewhere, but I haven't been able to google any references to it.
The concept is to shine a mirror onto a lunar rover that is carrying a Fresnel Lens, or to utilize an Arecibo type of apparatus; this is to heat and melt portions...
