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Description: Moon colony. (Artist's concept of possible exploration programs.) Just a few kilometers from the Apollo 17 Taurus Littrow landing site, a lunar mining facility harvests oxygen from the resource-rich volcanic soil of the eastern Mare Serenitatis. Here a marketing executive describes the high iron, aluminum, magnesium, and titanium content in the processed tailings, which could be used as raw material for a lunar metals production plant. This image produced for NASA by Pat Rawlings, (SAIC). Technical concepts for NASA's Exploration Office, Johnson Space Center (JSC).
Title: Mooncolony
Credit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/mmb/22may_beaty_prt.htm, http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/mars/lunaractivities/html/s99_04195.html
Author: NASA/SAIC/Pat Rawlings
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