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The continued search for technology metals on our planet Earth may possibly lead to mining on the moon, says a scientist representing the University of Arizona. About four decades have passed since a moon rock was first examined by Professor Timothy Swindle. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Will 21st century’s Technological advancements enable us to
mine on the Moon?
The continued search for technology metals on our planet Earth may possibly lead to mining on the
moon, says a scientist representing the University of Arizona. About four decades have passed since a
moon rock was first examined by Professor Timothy Swindle; and now, he and his team of researchers
are asking whether valuable natural resources can be found under the crust of the moon.
At the University of Arizona, Swindle and his team of researchers continue their study about the history
of the moon, its compositions and its magnetic fields, in the campus’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory;
the data and information for which is transmitted from a modern spacecraft that’s orbiting the moon.
Swindle mentioned that making a breakthrough in lunar knowledge is the new race, and it’s quickly
becoming a very crowded field. He also added that the Chinese have already sent missions to the moon.
Presently, they have deployed a rover there; but the Indians have sent an orbiter around the moon, and of
course, so have the Americans.
Swindle warned however, that the quest to extract the moon’s natural resources may prove itself
disappointing.
But the scientists have still gone as far as to theorize that our moon can prove itself to be a significant
source of what are known as technology metals, the kind of elements that have important applications in
the technology industry. Among them is a researcher from the Arizona Geological Survey.
Conway also mentioned that these elements don’t accumulate in minerals all that frequently, which is
why they are so difficult to find.
Would we be able to find technology metals by mining on the moon?
Researchers are aware of the amount of material present on the moon. What they aren’t yet certain of is
how long it would take to mine, and whether it would make more sense to refine the elements on the
moon or conduct the process back on earth.
Currently, it is difficult to find justification to conduct mining in outer space. The tech metals we would
mine would have to be unique, and far more difficult to find here than on the moon. Tech metals maybe
rare on earth, but as of now they are nowhere near rare enough to make mining on the moon an
attractive proposition.
The private industry is unfazed by this logic, and is well underway in planning missions to harvest
technology metals from different objects in space. The primary targets are asteroids, which are far easier
to reach than the moon.
The space between earth and moon can be a training ground for the technology that’s aimed at
accomplishing something far more challenging!
Swindle says that all future space missions would remind laymen and scientists alike that outer space is
massive, and relatively the moon is much closer.
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