moon ice Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com Covering the business and politics of space Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:06:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png moon ice Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com 32 32 80681979 Moon ice in the Artemis era: what we still don’t know https://spacenews.com/moon-ice-in-the-artemis-era-what-we-still-dont-know/ https://spacenews.com/moon-ice-in-the-artemis-era-what-we-still-dont-know/#respond Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:06:14 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=443228 This Intuitive Machines mini-hopper is scheduled to dive into the permanently shadowed floor of Marston crater at the moon’s south pole. Credit: Intuitive Machines
This Intuitive Machines mini-hopper is scheduled to dive into the permanently shadowed floor of Marston crater at the moon’s south pole. Credit: Intuitive Machines

While NASA has long hoped for extractable water ice on the lunar surface, making use of the resource may be harder than expected.

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