As the sun glides on a 3.9-billion-year-old, crater-pockmarked part of the Moon around 22 September and light falls on solar panels at the cold lunar dawn, India’s sleeping Pragyan rover and Vikram lander—both part of the successful Chandrayaan-3 mission—may awaken. “We call it the Nectarian Age, 3.9 billion years old.” Estimates of water abundance have already come from payloads aboard …
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The moons shadowed, frigid nooks and crannies may hold frozen water in more places and in larger quantities than previously suspected, good news for astronauts at future lunar bases who could tap into these resources for drinking and making rocket fuel, scientists reported Monday. https://t.co/TUFKK8Rl9x pic.twitter.com/1wiy05yS4r— NASA Goddard October 26, 2020 NEWS: We confirmed water on the sunlit surface of …
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