I found a cool website that has a full 3d map of the moon with real terrain taken by years of satellite data

https://quickmap.lroc.asu.edu/layers?camera=-337370.552%2C537687.756%2C2125663.865%2C1.298%2C-0.561%2C6.283%2C2218416.976%2C60.000&id=lroc&showTerrain=true&queryOpts=N4XyA&trailType=0&layers=NrBsFYBoAZIRnpEBmZcAsiEIHYFcAbAyAbwF8BdC0yioA&proj=22

the graphics are kind of low quality, but most of these pictures were taken hundreds of miles above the ground so its actually crazy how detailed it is
also the controls are very finnicky so if you dont know how to move around on the moon ill help

it has come to my attention that my last post did not in fact contain the smaller screenshot of the mariner valley image like i wanted but in fact was the full 23,000x11,000 pixels

out of all the websites for that picture to work why planet minecraft

anyways don’t look at my last post it’ll lag your computer really badly (i can’t delete it for this reason it keeps lagging i’ve tried like 3 times)

level 40 i am
hooray

this is honestly one of the funniest things i’ve seen in a while

so there’s a company called AstroForge that is planning to launch a spacecraft called Brokkr-1 to a near-earth asteroid

they want to go to the asteroid to mine it, to see if mining asteroids for valuables is possible (and profitable)

the thing is, they aren’t telling the public which asteroid they’re going to
and by doing that they’ve annoyed a lot of space nerds with too much free time (including me)

so we’re gonna find their asteroid
we already know a lot about it
-the company has said it’s less than 100 meters wide, and is classified as a near-earth object (NEO)
-it’s an M-Type (metallic) asteroid
-they want to launch their mission in April 2024
-Brokkr-1 will take 11 months to get there

using this launch date and time itll take to get there, we can eliminate a large majority of the other NEOs because they’ll be behind the sun or other annoying places that make them hard to get to in april 2024
so, we’re looking for a small m-type asteroid that will be in a good location to launch to in april 2024 with an 11-month travel time

that leaves just 33 asteroids the company could be trying to go to, and we’re gonna individually research each of them to figure out the most likely target

we are gonna reveal company secrets and it’s so funny to see dozens of space nerds all working together like this