For my Post 2000 - Nyrath reports on a conference about a lunar station overnight, night there being a fortnight here. Artemis as it happens is targeting that south-polar basin. It promises eternal shade but honestly, should promise eternal daylight in places as well.
I have to say, the article is bad and its editors should feel bad. It reads like a press-release; first blathering about how awesome NASA is and then spinning off to some cods about NTR/NTP and NEP. We are not firing these torches between Earth and our Moon. So, in an article under a Lunar title, please don't even mention this stuff.
It's nice that they are planning power-sources as will work overnight. But. At first each stint will likely be daylight; be there for a week and get off the rock. I say a week because we have to ask how to handle the dust longer than Apollo 17 handled it.
The next step, then, isn't to find energy-sources as will work over the dark; but to find such as will not break over the dark. In between human visits.
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