Topic: Perfect Spot Found for Moon Base

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Perfect Spot Found for Moon Base
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 13 April 2005
01:02 pm ET

Researchers have identified what may be the perfect place for a Moon base, a crater rim near the lunar north pole that's in near-constant sunlight yet not far from suspected stores of water ice.

Permanently sunlit areas would provide crucial solar energy for any future Moon settlement, a goal for NASA outlined last year by President George W. Bush. Such sites would also have resort-like temperatures compared with other lunar locations that fluctuate between blistering heat and unfathomable cold.

Equally important, in the permanently shadowed depths of craters around the lunar north pole, water ice may lurk, according to previous but unconfirmed observations.

Of course the Moonbase should be named Alpha.

[J. Carney]

Of course the Moonbase should be named Alpha.

And we have to put up a black monolith to commemorate the founding.

[The Postman]

Of course the Moonbase should be named Alpha.

And we have to put up a black monolith to commemorate the founding.

And give it a master computer named MIKE.

[Nemesis]

What is the computer called at this base then?

[CaptStumpy]

Just keep it away from that pesky nuclear storage facility.