wn.com - 2 days ago

American astronauts who return to the moon s surface in the years ahead for the first time in more than half a century will have the difficult and unprecedented task of setting the stage for a permanent human lunar settlement. That may be the primary objective for spacefarers in NASA s Artemis lunar program, but it won t be their only one. Indeed, a team of researchers at the University of Arizona says that astronauts who land on the moon s south pole have a unique opportunity to also collect some lunar samples that could reveal clues about the origins of Earth s natural satellite. New research published Oct. 8 in the journal Nature proposes a theory for how the moon s crater-riddled far...

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