Phil Stooke @PhilStooke@mastodon.social
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Here is a bit more detail on the ESAS lunar exploration sites. Today the emphasis is on the south pole, but ESAS suggested a series of landings in other places. We call missions like that 'sorties'. Apollo was all sorties, but they did, early on, consider a fixed base instead, though not at the pole. Vision planning was a mix of sorties and a south polar base or outpost. Here are 6 sortie sites. No. 4, Bode, has been suggested for a Chinese crewed landing.

Six of the ESAS lunar exploration sites.They are in order, the south pole, the middle of the south pole-Aitken basin, the Aristarchus plateau, Rima Bode, Mare Tranquillitatis and the north pole.
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