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Glass beads full of water on the moon: what does the discovery mean for space exploration?

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The Moon and the Future of Astronomy

There's still loads we don't know about the moon despite, if you're the only celestial object we've been to of course. But there are places on the moon where actually you could address many of those questions. For example, you could go on the far side of the moon where there is a zone called Radio Quadzone from which you can observe parts of the universe that you just cannot observe from the Earth. Similarly, these polar craters because they have been under permanent shadow for almost the entirety of the geological history,. They could have been collecting information through material that is actually falling in. Maybe it is being delivered by comets, maybe it is delivered by asteroids. Those material could

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