The thing is that we don’t really think that we have much more we can learn from the moon. It’s not about whether we can or can’t send a rover there, it’s about ‘why would we?’ We know what the atmosphere and surface are made up of and that there’s not anything of significant value or purpose to us.
Mars is consistently doing things that surprise us; changes in atmospheric composition, newfound geologic structures, etc.
The moon hasn’t done anything to surprise us in 70 years
The thing is that we don’t really think that we have much more we can learn from the moon. It’s not about whether we can or can’t send a rover there, it’s about ‘why would we?’ We know what the atmosphere and surface are made up of and that there’s not anything of significant value or purpose to us.
Mars is consistently doing things that surprise us; changes in atmospheric composition, newfound geologic structures, etc.
The moon hasn’t done anything to surprise us in 70 years
mars has an atmosphere hence it has the capacity for teraforming. we can try all sorts of things with mars
mars has an atmosphere hence it has the capacity for teraforming. we can try all sorts of things with mars
The moon also has an atmosphere, it’s just much less dense than mars’
The moon also has an atmosphere, it’s just much less dense than mars’
There's invisible dinosaurs on the moon.
There's invisible dinosaurs on the moon.
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