How Will We Extract Water On The Moon?We Asked a NASA Technologist.
How Will We Extract Water On The Moon?We Asked a NASA Technologist.

We know the Moon contains water, but, could future astronauts access and make use of it?

That's the goal.

At NASA, we're actively trying to answer that question.

Once it lands at the lunar south pole, our PRIME-1 – Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-l – will robotically sample and analyze ice from bencath the lunar surface, contributing to our scarch for water on the Moon: