Moon maps too poor for safe landings
Moon maps too poor for safe landings
19:00 10 November 2005
NewScientist.com news service
David L Chandler
The current ignorance of the surface of the Moon could be an obstacle for several nations with ambitious plans to return there, scientists argue in a new analysis.
A dozen people have already walked on the Moon, and yet knowledge of its detailed surface topography is far worse than that of Mars. That could cause trouble when the next wave of astronauts go there: the US is planning to return to the Moon by 2018 and China, India and Europe are all developing plans.
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