Now, a team of researchers from Brown University might be making a large contribution to future lunar bases, as they investigated the thickness of the lunar regolith across the entire lunar surface, whose findings were recently published in The Planetary Science Journal. While scientists have long hypothesized that the regolith is thinner in the dark, volcanic regions (called lunar mare or maria for singular or plural, respectively) and thicker in the brighter lunar highland regions, global data regarding the exact regolith thickness has remained a mystery. As noted, this study comes as NASA has ambitious plans to build a permanent Moon base near the lunar south pole. While Mars has long been an eventual target for human exploration, its weather patterns, specifically dust storms, constantly rearrange the regolith, thus making regolith thickness estimates difficult, or even impossible. What new insights into the lunar regolith and how it could aid in building future lunar bases will researchers make in the coming years and decades?