While the Earth is tilted at an angle of about 23 degrees, the moon's tilt is just over 1 degree. Because of this, the summits of some lunar crater rims are sunlit over very long periods.
In some locations, there are "peaks of eternal light," or pics de lumiere eternelle, as the French astronomer Camille Flammarion called them at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Babak Shakouri asks, "Who owns them?"
Vid Beldavs proposes how to go about making a lunar development company.
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