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Researchers want to build 'streetlights' on the moon — and they'd be taller than the Statue of Liberty


A private company has received funding from the U.S. government to build the first-ever "streetlights" on the moon — towering, Statue of Liberty-sized structures that could withstand the brutal lunar night.

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