We tend to imagine the Moon as a barren, resourceless rock, but the permanently shadowed craters near its south pole hold something future astronauts may prize more than gold: water ice, confirmed by NASA missions, that could one day be split into oxygen to breathe and hydrogen for rocket fuel.

Permanently shadowed craters near the lunar south pole can trap water ice, a resource that could support life support, oxygen production, and future propellant systems. The post We tend to imagine the Moon as a barren, resourceless rock, but the permanently shadowed craters near its south pole hold something future astronauts may prize more than gold: water ice, confirmed by NASA missions, that could one day be split into oxygen to breathe and hydrogen for rocket fuel. appeared first on Space Da