Permanently shadowed regions near the lunar poles maintain temperatures low enough to preserve water ice, which can be split into oxygen for life support and hydrogen for rocket propellant, making these barely visible areas potentially the most valuable terrain on the Moon.
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At the lunar poles, some crater floors sit in permanent darkness. Sunlight never climbs high enough to touch them, so temperatures can fall below the level where water ice escapes quickly into space. Over time, impacts, solar wind chemistry, and migrating molecules may have stocked these [music] cold traps with usable ice. That matters because water is not just for drinking. Split it, and you get oxygen [music] and hydrogen, life support and rocket propellant. The moon's most valuable terrain [music] may be the places we can barely see.
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