Moon is part of Mars

[Fake Messiah]

You also make the point that no humans will be going to Mars in the next few decades.  Who knows what the advances in computer tech will be by then?

Humans already have all the computer tech they need to land on Mars, so the actual barrier is this kind of attitude people have: "The only reason to send human beings to Mars is to be able to boast that we sent human beings to Mars."

Given the advances in camera technology, extremely high resolution photographs could be taken and transmitted.

They already are sending all sorts of interesting pictures, like













But now what do you propose we do? Scratch our heads until the cows come home because there's nobody to pick it up, do the precise digging, try to puzzle it together.

Sure, you want to train the robots but as I tried to explain even that is at hefty price because these kind of algorithms don't return its investments, but it will come about eventually.