Comments on: Japan's SELENE Disproves Concept of 'Peak of Eternal Light' on the Moon

By: Climbing Mount Malapert « Future moon

Climbing Mount Malapert « Future moon — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:41:05 +0000

[...] terrain, located in the South Polar region of the Moon. Illuminated by Sun 89% of the time (almost a peak of eternal light), and neighboring some permanently shadowed craters (potentially harboring ice), it is an often [...]

By: Orbiting Atlas #2: Cabeus « Luna C/I: Moon Colonization and Integration

Orbiting Atlas #2: Cabeus « Luna C/I: Moon Colonization and Integration — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:50:23 +0000

[...] crater enveloped in deep shadow, about 80 miles north of Shackleton and the lunar South Pole (and ~1,000 miles south of the nearest Mare), Cabeus had drawn a lot of [...]

By: Orbiting Atlas #1!: Sinus Iridum (The Bay of Rainbows) « Luna C/I: Moon Colonization and Integration

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:30:39 +0000

[...] Chang’e-3, will be Sinus Iridum. NASA and private enterprise have focused more on the solar-soaked South Pole and helium-3-happy Mare Tranquillitatis, so Sinus Iridum is an interesting choice, and something of [...]

By: Japan To Have Bipedal Robots on the Moon by 2020? « Luna C/I: Moon Colonization and Integration

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:28:44 +0000

[...] increasing as of late–their Kaguya orbiter has made significant findings (including recently disproving the concept of a lunar “peak of eternal light”), they plan on having an astronaut on the moon by 2030, and the Japan Space Elevator Association [...]