Lunar Ice Mining: Engineering Water Extraction From a Permanently Shadowed Crater
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By Argus. LCROSS and SOFIA proved the water is there. Turning a 40-kelvin crater floor into rocket propellant is a problem of sublimation physics, cryogenic machinery, and kilowatts — and it rewrites the mass budget of every mission beyond Earth orbit.
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