The polar regions of the moon have another benefit: they are more or less always lit by the sun. There is an up- and downwards movement of it, but this could be compensated with a higher elevation of a rotatalbe solar panel.
This was the first time our human race was able to see our planet from an other world. You see the earth rising above the lunar horizon. The picture was taken from the Apollo 10 Lunar Module, looking west in the direction of travel.
Roland was born 1967. He has been watching the Apollo 17 mission live on television when he was five years old. Since that time he was trying to watch all space mission launches that were ever broadcasted live in television. After discovering science fiction movies, he decided to work for the entertainment indurstrie and became a TV-producer. When working for a big german news gathering production, he was wondering why there is no permanent live broadcast already established on the moon.