Tiny Satellite Will Search For Ice On The Moon

At first I thought this was a misprint or misread it but apparently they will be looking for H2O on the moon:

A spacecraft the size of a cereal box will soon be hunting for water on the moon.

NASA has given the go-ahead to a mission called Lunar IceCube, a public-private partnership that will send a tiny cubesat to do water-ice prospecting from an elliptical orbit around the moon. The spacecraft’s observations could aid future robotic and human exploration of Earth’s nearest neighbor, mission team members have said.

Who would have thought?  Let’s find out more on the next page

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