#rassor — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rassor, aggregated by home.social.
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#Reuters 📆 August 11, 2023 #Helium3 is an isotope of helium that is rare on earth, but #NASA says there are estimates of a million tonnes of it on the #moon 🌙. This isotope could provide nuclear energy 🔋 in a fusion reactor but since it is not radioactive it would not produce dangerous waste.
#RareEarthMetals - used in #smartphones 📱, #computers 💻 and advanced technologies - are present on the moon 🌙, including scandium, yttrium and the 15 lanthanides https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/moon-mining-why-major-powers-are-eyeing-lunar-gold-rush-2023-08-11Picture : #BuzzAldrin speaking with NASA's Rob Mueller about the lunar/martian/asteroid mining #robot #RASSOR https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rob_Mueller_and_Buzz_Aldrin_with_RASSOR.jpg
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#LAtimes 📆 Sept. 4, 2022 "Two #asteroids in the belt between #Mars and #Jupiter 🪐 have more #iron, #nickel and #cobalt than exists on #Earth. Ultimately these products could be not only #mined ⛏️ but also #processed in #space, reducing #pollution of both the #air and #water on #Earth" https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-09-04/commercialization-space-earth
"Both #NEAs have surfaces with 85% #metal such as iron and nickel and 15% silicate material, which is basically #rock" https://news.arizona.edu/story/mini-psyches-give-insights-mysterious-metal-rich-near-earth-asteroids
Picture: #RASSOR on #Ceres https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prototype-d%27excavateur-de-la-NASA--RASSOR.jpg
