News Archive / Tagged: Moon Mineralogy Mapper
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Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles
Jim SharkeyAugust 28th, 2018A team of researchers using data collected by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument have directly observed definitive evidence of water ice at the Moon's poles. While most of the ice at the southern pole is concentrated in lunar craters, the substance is more widely, but sparsely distributed, at the northern pole.