The NEIU NASA/UNCF Project

 Lunar Main Page

NEIU Earth Science Department

 MINING the MOON: Links for Educators*
                                                                                          *and others with insatiable curiosity

 

Composition and Geology of the Moon * Information from the Galileo Mission  * Results from the Lunar Prospector mission * Results of the Clementine Project  * Photos of moon rocks, including thin sections and     SEM images can be found at NASA's Mars Image Gallery;    more images also at The Moon Rock Collection.  * Craters on the moon: volcanoes or meteor impacts?     Check out the volcanos and meteorite modules affiliated with    this website.  Compare images of lunar impact craters,    found at this NASA site, to images of lunar volcanic    structures at this NASA site. * The Evolution of the Moon: sequence of events in the moon's     history (by Harrison H. Schmitt)	Potential Resources and Uses * Helium 3 (for use in fusion reactors) * Hydrogen
	Is mining in space possible? *  * General information about mineral resources and mining on    the Earth:
	Who is studying these issues? * NASA, of course! * Not to mention the Space Studies Institute Also: * China says it is planning to establish a base on the Moon     to exploit its mineral resources: BBC News 20 May 02] * The Artemis Project [for private enterprise on the moon]
OTHER NEAT SITES *  A Field Trip to the Moon (Harrison H. Schmitt, astronaut     of Apollo 17 mission) *  NASA's Gallery of Apollo photos: historic moments,     moon rocks and more. *  Interested in Lunar Citizenship??!!   Other information is also at     the Lunar Republic site, including a full moon atlas. *  MoonTool, a utility for calculating phase of the moon at a     user-specified time/date.  Related topic: effects on TIDES.	BASIC EXPLANATIONS  * The NASA Moon home page contains information on all aspects of the moon, its composition, and data collected from lunar missions. a site with photos of the moon *

 
  (More images at Space Studies Institute)