Actually ties in with my last post, but also indicative of the fact that I will (as the blog banner text declares) start to do more non-wargaming blog posts here, particularly as the space activity hots up over the next few years.
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So first up is the proposed Project Artemis timeline for the USA's proposed return to the moon in 2024, and yearly moon-landings thereafter, with a very simple moonbase in 2028.
The Ordnance Survey has just done a moon map of the Apollo 11 landing site, at 1:1,470,000, but to support my moon gaming I really need something like a 1:25,000 of the south polar regions. The area around Amundsen and Shackleton sounds a possibility, here's a 150km map of part of Schrodinger crater from Google Earth/Moon - the real polar area around Amundsen is too distorted to see well.
Most views of the moon seem pretty fractal though - see the recent Chinese landing, with just more and smaller craters appearing as you zoom in, so UFO-style, if you haven't got a frame of reference you can't tell what size area you are looking at.
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