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Mike Wehner
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- The Moon has water ice hiding near its poles, which is something that is a fairly recent discovery.
- The ice could hold clues about where the water on Earth came from and tell us a lot about the history of the Earth-Moon system.
- An increasing number of missions to the Moon's poles could potentially contaminate the ice and taint future discoveries, scientists now warn.
The Moon is far from the dry, dusty rock that astronomers of decades past assumed it was. There's actually water on the Moon, and we know this thanks to high-tech observations that have uncovered its presence in the form of ice. This ice is located mostly at the Moon's poles, hidden in deep craters where rays from the Sun never reach.
That ice could be incredibly important from a scientific perspective. Pristine and untainted, the frozen water could offer researchers a clue as to how water arrived on Earth as well as the Moon. However, it will only continue to be valuable and important if it remains unspoiled, and with an increasing number of missions targeting the Moon's poles, scientists are now worried that these efforts of exploration may ultimately ruin the frozen water.
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Should we stop visiting the Moon’s poles? originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 22:34:35 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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