[political12345]

if we are ever to build cities on the moon, this is a neccessity. Europeans made maps of the american continents even though they only lived on the coast at first

[ttyprintk]

I don’t agree; if we are ever to stake claims on the moon, this is a necessity. Those imperial Europeans sought mining investiture and the fountain of youth, to relieve their war budgets. Mapping the moon is not path-dependent on mapping the Americas, but would be interesting if it was.

[dotancohen]

How were the continental interiors mapped?

[defrost]

In multiple successive waves, each adding further detail.

eg: Radiometric K-U-Th urface layer contour maps are still being composited for complete coverage of some continents.

[1] https://www.usgs.gov/maps/aerial-gamma-ray-color-contour-map...