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Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo... by detritus on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @11:19AM (#23247912)
I thought that we were fairly sure there's water at the poles, frozen in the permenant shadows created in some craters?

checks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_water suggests we have a lot of evidence to imply there is, but until we get there and extract enough for a cup of tea, I guess we can't be sure.

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Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo... by 0xffff2 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @01:49PM (#23249719)
We're pretty sure, and we are working on getting samples [0]. I'm not sure if we have a plan to send up a tea bag on the rover, but I'm going to suggest that that be added.

[0]: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-viper-lunar-rover-to-map-wa...

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