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  • Ice store at Moon's South Pole is a myth: study

    10/19/2006 6:41:12 AM PDT · by presidio9 · 80 replies · 1,544+ views
    AFP ^ | 10/19/06
    Hopes that the Moon's South Pole has a vast hoard of ice that could be used to establish a lunar colony are sadly unfounded, a new study says. In 1994, radar echoes sent back in an experiment involving a US orbiter called Clementine appeared to show that a treasure trove of frozen water lay below the dust in craters near the lunar South Pole that were permanently shaded from the Sun. If so, such a find would be an invaluable boost to colonisation, as the ice could be used to provide water as well as hydrogen as fuel. NASA is...