On request of a reader, I have to jam in one special topic and put aside the Space Race. That is why we have to immigrate to Mars and not the Moon. Mars is 140 million miles away from earth on average; nearest is 35.8 miles and farthest 249.1 miles. It takes 6-7 months to reach but the Moon only 3-4 days, with an average distance of 238,855 miles only; nearest 225k miles and farthest 252k miles.
Both planets have a thin atmosphere, the Moon even thinner. On both planets we need to put on astronauts’ helmet and pressurized suit in outdoors. So, Elon Musk aims at establishing a city up to 1 million population on Mars. It would be quite a large indoor city, much larger than the largest shopping mall on earth. But Mars can have plants grow in outdoors, no need to have green house like the earth. The water reserve in Mars under the crust in south pole in form of ice is much more than that in the Moon, and enough to supply a city of 1 million.
One day in Mars is 24.6 hours which is quite near the earth day and easily to be adopted by human being, while on the Moon one day equals to 29.5 earth days, for the moon’s revolution around the sun and its rotation on its axis both take 29.5 days. To sum up its due to 3 major reasons that the immigration target is Mars and not the Moon. (1) Atmosphere structure can support plantation which can generate food chain, (2) abundant supply of water, (3) life habit cycle of a day at 24.6 hours is what human body can fit in and more beneficial to health.
Mars is well-known for its dust storms, which occur every Martian year during summer in the southern hemisphere. Every 3 Martian years (5 and a half Earth years), these storms grow so large that they are visible from Earth and will engulf the entire planet for months. The highest mountain in Mars is Olympus up to 72,000 ft which is 3 times higher than Mt Everest on earth.
The detection of water on the Moon can be chased back to Luna 24 of Soviet Union in 1976 where they said have detection of water, but no confirmation and no follow up. The Apollo 14 project of US in 1971 which was the fourth Moon Landing project found vapor of water near their landing site, but no further confirmation of water and no follow up. In Oct 2007, Chinese Chang’e 1 orbiter took photos around areas in the pole where water was likely to be found but no confirmation for the time being which is Dec 2025.
India had a Chandrayaan-1 program and confirmed the precise location there is water reserve in the Moon under the crest in form of ice in south pole, the confirmation time is 20:31 on 14th November 2008. NASA reconfirmed the exploration in 2009. In Oct 2025, China announced that they will shoot the Chang’e 7 in 2026, and will be the first country to detect water in the Moon.
This is the actual timeline. Investors must have a precise idea on their research and better take the time between Christmas and New Year for research on your own for it is a cooling down period and even the market goes up the transaction is very small. If you go for a tour to whatsoever places, the guide would always tell you that spot is the largest, longest, highest or ……. etc in the world. It is just a means of making the tourists happy, whether it is accurate, the longest or second or third longest is not so important. Only if you can enjoy the trip is above all. But for investment, it is another story, sometimes unimportant and sometimes detrimental, it depends on various cases and will have various results.
The more data you get, the higher chance of success you can have and you will be in a better position than those that has less information and accuracy. What is analysis? Or what is precise and outstanding analysis? That is, you can know more than others. That is, you can have correct and accurate information than others from various sources. If the information you get is incorrect and limited, you can never have correct and comprehensive analysis.