India's Chandrayaan-2 moon mission prepares for historic lunar landing - NBCNewsMACH
” — and create detailed maps of the south pole region, which along with its northern counterpart is known to contain deposits of water ice within perpetually shadowed craters.
Scientists hope to gain a better understanding of the origins of the deposits and determine whether it might be possible to mine them to obtain water for future space missions, said Timothy Swindle, director of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona in Tucson. “We know that there’s water there, but we don’t know very much about it — how much there is, how it got there,” Swindle said. “The more we can learn, the better, in part because if we want to explore the moon that would be a really great resource for human exploration.”and could potentially be separated into hydrogen and oxygen that could be used as rocket fuel for missions to Mars and other far-flung destinations.
The lander and rover are designed to operate on the moon for 14 days — roughly equivalent to a single “lunar day.” The Chandrayaan-2 orbiter, which has its own instruments for studying the ice deposits, will continue to circle the moon for a year.
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