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As NASA prepares to return to the Moon by 2024 as part of its Artemis program, the agency is focusing its efforts on exploring the Moon\\u2019s polar regions. These are areas of the Moon which seem to have a lot of water mixed in with the regolith.

Some of these craters are permanently in shadow, and might still have large quantities of water, that\\u2019s accessible to human and robotic explorers. This is a critical resource, and the Moon might be just the place to help humanity as it pushes out to explore the rest of the Solar System.

But it might also be an illusion. We really won\\u2019t know until we look up close.

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References:
\\nhttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/50-years-ago-lunar-landing-sites-selected
\\nhttps://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/
\\nhttps://space.stackexchange.com/questions/1336/what-thickness-depth-of-water-would-be-required-to-provide-radiation-shielding-i
\\nhttps://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3480
\\nhttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/lro-sheds-light-on-lunar-water-movement
\\nhttps://www.nasa.gov/ames/LCROSS
\\nhttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/inside-dark-polar-moon-craters-water-not-as-invincible-as-expected-scientists-argue
\\nhttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/chang-e-landers-a-closer-look
\\nhttps://www.isro.gov.in/gslv-mk-iii-m1-chandrayaan-2-mission/launch-kit-glance
\\nhttp://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2017/1207-koreas-first-lunar-mission.html
\\nhttps://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-12-new-lunar-science-technology-investigations
\\nhttps://www.astrobotic.com/2019/7/1/astrobotic-awarded-5-6-million-nasa-contract-to-deliver-autonomous-moon-rover
\\nhttp://www.planetary.org/explore/projects/planetvac/
\\nhttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/uom-nsu071119.php
\\nhttps://today.ttu.edu/posts/2019/07/Stories/NASA-picks-Nagihara-instrument-moon-landing

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