Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

Earth’s Moon is a destination point for renewed human exploration.
Image credit: NASA

Without doubt, Earth’s Moon looms as nations and for-profit private concerns have our celestial next-door-neighbor in their exploration cross-hairs.

The drum beat of back to the Moon, then putting humans on a permanent footing there, is on the upswing made practical by harvesting lunar resources. One need-to-have top priority is water ice, thought resident within permanently shadowed polar craters.

Shackleton Crater, the floor of which is permanently shadowed from the Sun, appears to be home to deposits of water ice.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University

But new research by Planetary Science Institute (PSI) senior scientist Norbert Schörghofer changes the prediction as to where water ice is on the Moon. The work also dramatically alters estimates for how much water ice is available on the Moon.

To read the full story, go to my new Multiverse Media SpaceRef article at:

https://spaceref.com/science-and-exploration/water-ice-moon-cold-facts-resource-reckoning/