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Gold/Mining/Energy : Peruvian Gold Ltd. PVO
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To: charred who wrote (594)8/30/1998 11:14:00 PM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (1) of 892
 
"A question, why did NASA hire a geologist to train the Apollo astronauts?"

Because they had to walk on rock and soft crushed rock. Only a geologist would understand what that is like as they are in and out of pits and on outcrop all day. It's tricky a bit. Easy to hurt yourself and stumble.

The other thing is the only kind of sample to take up there is a rock sample. And it takes training to not break your space helmet with flying rock. That would be very serious. There is a way to break rock with a series of well aimed light blows at a free face that breaks it with least effort and least fly rock. In point of fact they should have worn a guard for fly rock that protected the face shield.

And they have to know what to take and how to come back with maximally interesting samples and least redundancy. Ergo geology courses. They really should have talked to a prospector too who could tell them what to look for as sign of mineral that most geos are clueless about.

I think they should have landed on a fault zone where there was volcanism and prospected for gold and rare earths. The moon is a sea bed basalt for the most part. There should be lots of Pt, Nickel, Gold Diamond and REE's. My guess is many of the orebodies were formed when the moon was still part of the earth in Archean times.

A laser fly by that did long distance X ray fluorescence spectrophotometry would be useful. An infrared spectral study of the full moon would tell us what that side has in the way of alteration and minerals much as landsat can.

EC<:-}
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