Lunar craters could possibly be a wealthy supply of platinum
NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio
Craters on the moon might maintain over a trillion {dollars}’ value of platinum and different treasured metals deposited there by asteroids. Which means lunar prospecting could also be extra economically viable than travelling to asteroids individually to mine them – however the legality of doing this on the moon stays unclear.
Jayanth Chennamangalam, an unbiased researcher in Vancouver, Canada, and his colleagues checked out whether or not there could also be industrial portions of platinum group metals (platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium) that had been left behind by asteroids hitting…
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