 How are people on Earth able to help with the search for a missing prospector?
The meteor, a pebble, a little larger than a match head, traveled through space and time since it came into being. The light from the star that died when the meteor was created fell on Earth before the first lungfish ventured from the sea. The shaft tried to tie itself into a knot, and the blades, damaged and undamaged were spit through the casing. The shadow line between day and night could be seen from the Moon to be drifting across Australia. Evans, who had no watch, thought of the time as a quarter after Australia. Evans was a prospector, and like all prospectors, a sort of jackknife geologist, selenologist, rather. Once he followed a stampede to Yellow Crater, where he thought for a while that he had a fortune in chromium. In seventeen days he might be missed, but in seventeen days it would be dark again, and the search for him, if it ever began, could not begin for thirteen more days. By the light of this, he reinspected the steam system, and found about three gallons of water frozen in the condenser. This one had a tank and coils of tubing in the center of a curved reflector that was positioned to radiate the heat of the steam into the cold darkness of space. This boiling lowered the temperature, and the condenser demonstrated its efficiency by quickly freezing the water in the tank. If there was any water in the boiler, it would operate the engine that drove the generator. They might have appeared to waver slightly, if they were behind outflung corona flares. This was to allow the air-conditioning system to function properly, and to prevent air loss in case of the highly improbable meteor damage. For example, because of an order of his stating that there would be no alcoholic beverages within the survey building, the entire survey was assured of a constant supply of home-made, but passably good liquor. Morning to him had no meaning at all, but he thought in the strictest sense that it would be morning on the Moon for another week. The solar furnace was a rough parabola of mirrors used to focus the sun's heat on anything that it was desirable to heat. It was used mostly, from sun-up to sun-down, to supplement the nuclear power plant. "But we're amateurs, and we're turning this operation over to professionals. Three of the nine banks of mirrors would not respond to the electric controls, and one bank moved so jerkily that it could not be focused, and it threatened to tear several of the mirrors loose.
 They can see different sides of the moon from the people on the moon
 They can shine a light to make searching easier  Their equipment is advanced enough to connect to the prospector's radio  They can boost the signals of the scanners on the moon  They can see different sides of the moon from the people on the moon