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| Tango01 | 13 Oct 2016 12:15 p.m. PST |
… expected. "Meteorites have punched at least 222 impact craters into the Moon's surface in the past 7 years. That's 33% more than researchers expected, and suggests that future lunar astronauts may need to hunker down against incoming space rocks. "It's just something that's happening all the time," says Emerson Speyerer, an engineer at Arizona State University in Tempe and author of a October 12 paper in Nature. Planetary geologists will also need to rethink their understanding of the age of the lunar surface, which depends on counting craters and estimating how long the terrain has been pummelled by impacts…"
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| Andrew Walters | 14 Oct 2016 8:43 a.m. PST |
The lunar settlers will have to burrow or burry to avoid the solar radiation. Do a little more of whichever you're doing and you'll be protected from most impacts. There is no protection from the big impacts, but those are unlikely and dangerous to Earth dwellers, too. I suspect the lunar settlers will be more worried about accidents and malfunctions than getting hit by a rock. |
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