NASA wants to harvest bounties of ice on the moon.
The space agency, which plans to return astronauts to the lunar surface in late 2025, revealed 13 landing regions in the moon's South Pole where planetary scientists believe there's nearby water, ice, and other resources lodged in dark, shadowy craters. The sites, shown in the map below, are largely on the rims of craters or the ridges above these craters.
These sites are unexplored extraterrestrial terrain.
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