Ep. 686: Ice In The Shadows
Astronomy Cast
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The Future of Space Exploration
The moon is simply the nearest source of permanently shattered craters. The reason it has them is that lack of tilt. And we have other objects with lack of tilt, such as Mercury and Asteroid series. So what are they doing to kind of turn this, these shadow craters into a usable resource? It's not too different for what we do here on earth with water. You take the water there, you're going to have to heat it up into a liquid. And then you can use all sorts of various, basically electronics to zap it apart, process it into whatever you need.
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