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The Scoop: We are told that one of the key reasons to set up a lunar base is to mine the moon for its abundance of natural resources, but is this realistic? In some ways yes, but there's a lot of economics and politics to wade through first.
Planetary geologists speculate that the moon's polar craters may hold billions of tons of hydrogen, perhaps even in the form of water ice. Intriguing evidence returned by the Lunar Prospector and the Clementine probes in the 1990s seemed to support this idea.
LUNAR GAS STATIONS
If the moon's polar craters are full of hydrogen, and they're able to be harvested, our lunar neighbor could become a space gas station.Credit: NASA/JPL.
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