Artwork of an asteroid being mined.
Asteroid are potentially very lucrative and rich sources of precious metals and minerals, available in abundance in the Solar System. A future technology might be able to identify suitable asteroid targets, and then mine them for their resources. This illustrations shows a futuristic mining colony on a small asteroid around a kilometre in diameter - even a body this size could contain trillions of dollars worth of ore., by MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
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