23 November 2016
Massive ice deposits found under the surface of Mars
... poles can be warmed up and driven to the middle latitudes. This newly surveyed ice deposit more than doubles the volume of thick, buried ice sheets known in the northern plains, but still only represents less than one...
10 June 2020
New map boosts chances of finding water on the Moon
... Florida who have put forward a geologic model for how ice deposits on the Moon might have formed and evolved. “Despite...processes that have gone on to better understand where we may find ice deposits and how to best get to them with the least amount ...
October 2018
Mining the Moon for fun and profit
... value of the Moon lies neither in science nor in exploration, but in its material Is it possible to extract water from ice deposits at the lunar poles and process it into propellant for US$500/kg or less? To answer this question, researchers at the...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... least ISRU-driven lunar and Mars bases is the availability of water sources, in the form of accessible ice deposits. Extensive water ice is expected to be present in craters at the lunar poles. In March 2010, the lunar probe Chandrayaan-1 discovered...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... with a 6U CubeSat carrying an experimental miniature neutron spectrometer that will look for and map expected water ice deposits in the permanently shadowed craters of the lunar south pole. The spacecraft will attempt to enter an elliptical orbit...
April 2021
Managing the Moon - a model for engaging with planetary environments
... which move across the landscape influencing temperatures, ice deposits and, ultimately, the potential for human habitation...for the Moon might determine how much of the water-ice deposits or other geological features can be used, or set conditions...
