- NASA will send a ‘Lunar Flashlight’ to illuminate the shadowy craters and depressions on the Moon’s south pole.
- The space agency hopes to find water ice hiding out in these permanently dark areas.
- Future crewed missions to the Moon could utilize this ice as a resource, allowing for extended stays.
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NASA is determined to send humans back to the Moon sooner rather than later. The first crewed mission of the Artemis program is scheduled to kick off by 2024. Now, there’s plenty of reason to think that date will be delayed significantly, but for now, let’s assume that everything lines up correctly and NASA pulls it off.
NASA is preparing for that exact scenario, of course, but getting humans to the Moon is really only part of a much larger challenge. As the space agency explains in a new blog post, it’s working on something it’s calling the Lunar Flashlight, which is actually a tiny satellite equipped with a powerful laser that will scan the lunar surface in search of valuable materials, like water ice.
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