One landing site will be on the western limb of moon near the equator, the 2nd will be in the NE highlands. Both locations will exprience 2 weeks of day and 2 weeks of night.

73, Armando, N8IGJ

Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 14:20:31 CDT From: k0vty k0vty@juno.com Subject: [amsat-bb] Fw: Re: Re: ILN... Is this our future ride to the moon? MM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Message-ID: 20090706.122112.11225.13892@mailpop04.vgs.untd.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

I agree with John on the need for more data:

Also the attached below suggests we might need to know more about any location selected on the moon. How deep the dust How rocky How illuminated and when. The differences between the poles and non poles areas.