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TOPIC OF THE WEEK: IF YOU COULD GO ANYWHERE ON THE MOON...
One of my favorite things about the Moon is that it's not just one cool place---it's an entire continent's-worth of cool places!
Thousands of craters, mountains, valleys, great plains and tumultuous foothills waiting to be discovered & explored.
So, that said...if you could go anywhere on the Moon, where would you go?
To stand next to the footprints of Apollo might be pretty amazing, or to be thr first person on the far side of the Moon; but I think I personally'd head straight for the huge bullseye that is Mare Orientale, going to stand on the peak in the middle and gaze out at the several rings of mountains that spread out in every direction.
Where would you go?
Saturday Mar-09-2013
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Demarcus B.
Sunday Mar-17-2013
I definitely would find a mountain range on the near side of the moon to take a look at the Earth from there. Then I would venture into an impact crater like Aristillus. Call me a daredevil but I kind want to test how nimble humans would be in the reduced gravity on the Moon going into the crater and hiking the central peaks.
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Abhimat G.
Monday Mar-11-2013
I was first going to say the far side of the Moon, but that would put me totally out of contact with Earth.
I think I would go to the Apollo 15 site. I find the pictures from that landing site especially breathtaking. Apollo 15 landed in a valley next to Mons Hadley and several other mountains making up the Lunar Apennines. The distant mountains situated in front of an expansive flat lunar surface make the area one of the most beautiful places that we have pictures of. (I mean, how gorgeous is this view?! http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollopanoramas/images/preview/original/JSC2007e045379.jpg)