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Studies question feasibility of large-scale Moon water extraction

A 2025 review of 27 extraction approaches found no demonstration adequate to scale up to operationally useful tonnes.

Luisa Marconi
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Two 2025 studies question whether lunar water can be extracted at an operationally useful scale, a prospect NASA's Lunar Trailblazer press kit puts at up to 600 million metric tonnes of ice in permanently shadowed regions.[1]