10 June 2020
New map boosts chances of finding water on the Moon
... likely exist. Once considered a seemingly barren rock, ever since water ice was discovered within permanently shadowed regions at the poles of the Moon – up to 30 wt% ice on the surface is indicated at some locations – the idea of mining H2O...
22 January 2021
Russia develops instrument to search for precious metals on the Moon and Mars
... designed not just to inspect the terrain, but also to prospect it for resources such as lunar water ice in permanently shadowed regions of the Moon. This will be a big step up from Russia’s first series of robotic lunar rovers, Lunokhod 1 and...
