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Mining the Moon

  • Written by Paul K. Byrne, Assistant Professor of Planetary Geology, North Carolina State University
Artist's depiction of a moon base with a view of Earth in the distance. Pavel Chagochkin/Shutterstock.com

If you were transported to the Moon this very instant, you would surely and rapidly die. That’s because there’s no atmosphere, the surface temperature varies from a roasting 130 degrees Celsius (266 F) to a bone-chilling minus 170 C...

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