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This Ingenious Microwave Could Help Turn Moon Ice Into Clean Drinking Water

Gizmodo 05 Apr 2025
A British team has won first place in the Aqualunar Challenge for developing a system that purifies water extracted from lunar ice ....
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Lunar soundwave tech offers new hope for extracting Moon ice

SpaceDaily 01 Apr 2025
... device that uses high-frequency sound waves to clean water derived from lunar ice.
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Elon Musk Secretly Working to Take Over NASA

Futurism 31 Mar 2025
... Americans to the lunar surface," in a statement to the WSJ. However, given Musk's animosity toward NASA's Artemis program, the country's upcoming return to the lunar surface could be on thin ice.
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Purifying moon water: UK scientists’ ‘lunar microwave’ beats extreme conditions

Interesting Engineering 29 Mar 2025
Back in 2018, ISRO’s Chandrayan-1 spacecraft confirmed the presence of water ice beneath the lunar surface, and then in 2023, NASA released a detailed, wide-area map revealing areas where water could be found on the moon.
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CoRaLS Instrument Could Identify Buried Lunar Ice

Universe Today 28 Mar 2025
... Ray Lunar Sounder (CoRaLS) capable of detecting subsurface lunar water ice deposits that are elusive to current radar systems.
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Gloucestershire company wins prize for inventing way to produce clean water on moon

AOL 27 Mar 2025
Naicker said he and his colleague, Dr Ciarán Callaghan, shunned the brief of starting with contaminated ice and instead worked on the basis that this would first have to be extracted from the lunar regolith.
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There are a Billion Craters Waiting to Be Explored Near the Moon's South Pole

Universe Today 26 Mar 2025
At the south polar region there are permanently shadowed craters protecting pockets of water ice.
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