"The Lunar Regolith strongly scatters seismic energy." -Renee C. Weber.
All the space agencies know it, and almost none of the general public accepts it. Luna, (I hate calling it "The Moon" if you lived on Ganymede you would not call "The Moon", "The Moon." It deserves it's own name,) is a great, even better than Earth, example of what all the other rocky bodies are like. The agencies sneak missions to our moon as often as they are able, and this video is both a summary of some recent ones, and a report of proposed missions.
- The slide at 14:50 describes the gravity map, and those always are informative because they show intuitive topography. Did you even know there was a Lunar Mission named "Grail"? If you did you are a better nerd than I, but lunar missions tend to get poor press...
- There are a few slides talking about the use of retroreflectors, which are cool and underused. In "Sweet" I may have overused the term LIDAR when I could invoke retroreflectors.
- The slide at 21:30 is one of the most important thing for a nerd outside the ivory walls to know "Stagnant lid conduction is assumed to be the norm for smaller bodies, as is global contraction." Understanding this applies to most worlds in the solar system, including Mars, and it is not at all in line with fantasy-Mars.
- I don't have a great reason to call attention to the slide at 24:20, I just love the InSight mission.
- Lots of engineering at the tail 3rd.
That's very sci-fi when you think about it. It tells you what you are building on, sensing, picking up, digging, standing next to. Many can-&-cannot-do's. It's an immersion breaker when someone who knows this reads from some author who does not. Right now, many do not, but I suspect that will change sometime in the next decade.
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