Starship Asterisk*

The black areas are tar pits.

The "black spot" looks like a tar pit! If there is oil on Mars, then it is certain that oil is an accululation product from planet formation and is not the product of plant decay. The implications for Man are immense. Our resources of oil are much larger than thought. (There could also be ...

I agree that petroleum on the moon would be useless. The point is to establish the origin of petrolieum, with implications for the supply on earth.

Has anyone actually looked for tar pits on the Moon?

There is a theory of the source of oil called deep oil which suggests that oil is a conglomerate of hydrocarbon atoms which exist in interstellar space and that the oil deposits of the earth were gathered during planet formation and not by the rotting of vegetation (this theory is called peak oil). ...