Originally Posted by
Bfah
The intranet (and Space-x - NASA), are showing these huge craft sitting happily on the surface and not in a blown-out crater, leaning like a tower of Pizza.
Wot, like this?
But seriously, there is some concern about the storm of debris that will be blasted across the moonscape at immense velocities by a lander of any sort, let alone the huge ones being proposed and the damage that would inflict on anything and everything above the surface for many miles around as low gravity allows debris to fly great distances. So far no one has come up with a credible solution wrt the effect on complex above surface infrastructure
afaik.
I have also read that some have suggested that the exhaust velocity of a lander's rockets might be sufficient to blow debris into or nearly into moon orbit which would make the problem dangerously persistant and extremely widespread but I gather the jury is out on that.