lunar flashlight, moon, moon exploration, nasa, water ice

NASA’s Lunar Flashlight Ready to Search for the Moon’s Water Ice

Set for a November launch, the small satellite mission will use lasers to search for water ice inside the darkest craters at the Moon’s South Pole. It’s known that water ice exists below the lunar regolith (broken rock and dust), but scientists don’t yet understand whether surface ice frost covers the floors inside these cold ...

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NASA's Lunar Flashlight satellite.