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[RichA]

Also, what would be the damage, displaced rocks and dust?  Since no one is going to nuke the moon, what possible kind of damage could impact anyone?  Building a giant open pit mine?  That could, but good luck mining without any water.  Australians have methods of mining without water, due to the lack of water there, but doing it on any kind of major industrial mining scale would be very hard.

 

https://phys.org/new...-wild-west.html

 

 

[EJN]

There's already been lots of damage to the moon

 

[triplemon]

At least two of the Apollo mission deliberately steered the S-IVB upper booster into the moon. To create seismic signals for analyzing its interior with the seismometers installed by earlier Apollo missions. So that is sort of intentional created damage.

 

There are also folks having observed later spacecraft impacting it in precisely choreographed location, to study the ejecta clouds. Don't recall if they ever saw anything, though. But that would certainly count as "intentional inflicting visible damage".

[MeridianStarGazer]

I am all in favor of mining the moon. And putting houses on it. Resources for Earth and for building space habitats. We need to build several huge telescopes up there.

Mars is the one that needs to be examined for life a bit longer. We have only one chance. Other stars are too far away.

[RichA]

At least two of the Apollo mission deliberately steered the S-IVB upper booster into the moon. To create seismic signals for analyzing its interior with the seismometers installed by earlier Apollo missions. So that is sort of intentional created damage.

 

There are also folks having observed later spacecraft impacting it in precisely choreographed location, to study the ejecta clouds. Don't recall if they ever saw anything, though. But that would certainly count as "intentional inflicting visible damage".

You could lump footprints into that extreme.  Resolution on the moon from Earth anyway is limited to around 1/10th of a mile.

[moefuzz]

There have been some decent moon orbital probe pictures of crashed

and/or failed landings and impacts that show star burst like patterns

in the disturbed Regolith much like small meteor hits

 

Usually these small landers create impacts in the order of 10 to 20 meters

but can be larger depending on speed at impact

 

 

Japan's moon-landing error caused its robot to land upside-down (left),

 

Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL's error caused its lander to crash (right).

 

 

Edited by moefuzz, 24 March 2025 - 07:04 AM.

[MeridianStarGazer]

Let's fire non nuclear missles at it, with enhanced rockets, to prove we can hit meteors. the craters make good targets. Common, Russia, USA, and China: show you stuff! Call your shots or they don't count.

[moefuzz]

I am all in favor of mining the moon.  We need to build several huge telescopes up there.

 

 

Why not do a whole selection, you can start with the sea of serenity which sounds like a blissful place to spend time!

Edited by moefuzz, 26 March 2025 - 02:36 PM.