A Tour of the Lunar South Pole 

A day on which Kyplanet posts is a good day

They should make cheese on the moon and sell it as "moon cheese"

Drinking water that came from the Moon sounds like the best advertisment ever. Like, you would barely have to sell me on it for me to want it. That just sounds awesome.

I love watching your videos and realising just how outdated most of the stuff I was taught about the solar system in high school (which mind you was only 4 years ago for me) has already become outdated. I was told that the moon is completely uninhabitable and barren and pointless for exploration. I never knew about the concept of permanent dark spots or the potential of water ice here. Science is so cool.

The main problem with Shackleton crater is how deep it is- about 4.2km. If you are landing at the bottom and building your base there, that’s a long, steep climb to build your solar panel farm on one of those Peaks of (Nearly) Eternal Light. Sea of Tranquility on the other hand is on the Equator, easy to land on, and has endless flat plain to build your base on. Here you have ample sunlight to power solar furnaces, and their residual heat should be more than enough to power life support during the night. No ice there, of course, but ISS water recycling system is already incredibly efficient. Little replenishment would be needed and the extra water can easily be shipped in. And by water I mean hydrogen, and by hydrogen I mean methane. Oxygen is easily baked out of the regolith. Burn the methane (extra power source during the night, too) to make water; use the carbon for other things. The water ice deposits are only really needed for fuel production. But maybe we can do without any way. If Methalox is your choice of fuel, oxygen is 2/3 of the weight, and would be produced locally anyway. Or you make aluminium-O2 monopropellant instead. Lower ISP, true, but its literally dirt cheap! All considered my vote is for an equatorial base instead.

moon dlc when

As long as we don't find a weird anomaly in Shackleton Crater, we can avoid...*that.*

Kyplanet this is completely random but I randomly had a dream that the Soviet Union had a plan to use asteroids to affect the gravity of Jupiter’s moons and bring one into earths orbit but ultimately decided against it due to realizing that it would kinda mess with the earth’s whole cycle. I don’t know which moon (it was blue) but I think subconsciously this idea came about from your video about using asteroids to affect earths orbit.

please make a video about the Europa Clipper🙏

11 minutes ago is diabolical

1:14 me too moon, me too

please consider creating a video on the space exploration/space colonization potential of Indonesia 🇮🇩 please 🙏.**

You know what? Because of you, whenever I see a sci-fi setting about Earth people (such as ourselves humans) in space (preexisting or otherwise), I will make it involve the moon. =D

That's a big rock with 15 by 15 days day ight cycle, ranging from smoking hot 150 to near-absolute zero degrees celsius, with like several big lakes worth of water and a crispy 50 rads per year. Sounds like a good tourist resort, for a while.

Any more information on lunar gateway? Love your videos BTW.

hell yeah it feels like sooo long, when you don't upload :D

Great video. Just wish you can point out these specific areas ie pointer or label. Not sure if some of these pictures matches your description 👨🏿‍💻🤷🏿‍♂️👍🏿

I mean, we can't really know if schrödinger's crater has water or not until we visit there... Therefore it can be argued that the water both exists and doesn't exist until someone actually finds it.

This was really interesting to watch!

very informative, as always! but some of the footage is a bit laggy and there's quite a bit of audio crackling between audio clips

Greet overview of the south pole. Yes, it's great luck that the first location for a base will have incredible local terrain to explore. Also just a production FYI that there are bits of static in your audio right after many video transitions (8:19 and 8:43 for example).

Please make a video on Indonesian space exploration potential 🇮🇩 .*

3 minutes ago is crazy

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Banger video

Please make Majora's Mask on the moon.

If the entire moon turned into a lava world, how was the crater shape maintained?

I want to watch Godzilla LaserDiscs on the Moon 🌝 💿

Remember this as one of the first comments…

Hopefully this doesn’t turn out like Apollo 18 (the movie).

How do the future human colony in the Moon avoid all those $$$ effort got F-up by random meteor hits?

dudde… fuck yess…

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Artemis III is unlikely to fly anytime soon. It's supposed to land using the Space Nazi's craft, and each lunar landing by the Space Nazi's craft demands 12-16 tanker flights beyond launching the lander according to external estimates, and 8 according to the Space Nazi himself. And before that, there has to be an unmanned test landing according to NASA's contract with the Space Nazi. That's a minimum of 17 launches, according to Space Nazi's estimate, and up to 33, before Artemis III could try to land. It's ridiculous.

1st to comment.

Why do humans assume that the ice on the moon wouldn’t be toxic in some way? What if it’s contaminated with some sort of chemical or carcinogen?

Dang this guy HATES terrain!