Over 1 Trillion Dollars' Worth Of Precious Metals Waiting To Be Mined On The Moon, Study Suggests

At some point in our future, if sci-fi has any say in it, humanity will venture into space to mine asteroids for precious metals to bring back to Earth for our benefit/to help fight our robot overlords (delete as applicable). But according to a new study, we could make things a lot easier for ourselves by mining the Moon instead.

The idea is pretty simple. If you have ever looked at the Moon, you will see it is pretty much covered in craters . To give you an idea of how many, a study in 2020 found over 109,000 new craters in the low- and mid-latitude regions of our natural satellite.

"A lunar crater forms when an asteroid, meteoroid, or comet, typically moving faster than the speed of sound, plunges into the Moon’s surface," NASA explains . "The energy of the object – determined