A Moon base offers more than just a good view

摘要

Your Editorial "Brave blue world" (Nature 445,459; 2007) correctly points out that Antarctic science "has been central to the great project of understanding the changes that humans are inflicting upon the Earth". You go on to say that "the only input that lunar activity will provide for the study of Earth is the iconic and inspiring sight of a blue planet in a black sky over a grey desert".