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Well, it is just sitting around right?

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>NASA provided an Artemis update today (June 30), announcing new lunar landing contracts for its Moon Base initiative and a surprise new possible rover mission that could be headed to the moon's south pole. During the second monthly update that NASA has provided for its moon base plans, the agency named Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines as the providers of four robotic landers that will deliver scientific payloads to the surface of the moon, as NASA tests and expands the technologies needed for a permanent human outpost.

Well, it is just sitting around right? Archive: https://archive.today/j1alR From the post: >>NASA provided an Artemis update today (June 30), announcing new lunar landing contracts for its Moon Base initiative and a surprise new possible rover mission that could be headed to the moon's south pole. During the second monthly update that NASA has provided for its moon base plans, the agency named Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines as the providers of four robotic landers that will deliver scientific payloads to the surface of the moon, as NASA tests and expands the technologies needed for a permanent human outpost.
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You still think it's sand.....

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Just the word I used here to describe the loose surface conditions that they present to us.

I was just thinking about this earlier: they tell us that the surface of Mars is entirely sand or rock. For a planet that has a very thin atmosphere, that wind sure did a good job of grinding down that rock into sand. That doesn't even make sense given the time frames that we're talking about.