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Is ice on the Moon just a mirage?

Radar images dash hopes for Moonbase water supply.

If hopes of colonizing the Moon are ever to become reality, water needs to be found there. Sizeable amounts of ice could provide Moon-dwellers with drinking water and, if they split it into its atomic components, hydrogen for fuel and oxygen to breathe. If lunar water is scarce, colonizers would have to carry water and fuel with them from Earth, or perhaps extract hydrogen from the rocks, either of which could be hugely expensive.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on October 18, 2006 06:51 PM |

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