How much water is there on the Moon?

Space stations, both Chinese and international, are sophisticated laboratories in space. They have been developing substances and elements for many years, discovering new things that can only be manufactured in space or reach a high degree of purity in space.

All those new products that are going to be able to be manufactured and developed technologically, nanotechnology, substances, medicines, etc., are going to need resources, and if you take those resources from the Earth it would be a ruin, but if you take them from the Moon it would be much cheaper and it would be much more profitable, therein lies the wealth of the moon, not the minerals themselves, but what you are going to do with them.

And that is why right now there is this race and there are so many nations interested in putting their flag there, because in a few years there will be a distribution of those riches and each one will want to have their part of the pie, the essential wealth right now and more in the future will be water, and it is a question that they ask themselves, How much water is there on the Moon?

There is an April investigation carried out by China that shows that there is more water than was thought until that month of April, this investigation showed that there is an abundance of water in the hidden mantle of the moon, what happens is that this particular one would be very deep, but there is abundant water, at a shallower depth in what would be the crust to which we can easily access, it is estimated that there are about 3500 cubic km of water.

So that we have a reference, it is a little more than the water that Lake Huron is estimated to have, which is one of the great lakes in North America, 3500 cubic km, it sounds like a lot, but in reality it would be very distributed, there would be molecular water in the soil, in the lunar soil itself we would have water molecules, some of them a product of the solar wind, we would also have deposits of water ice, especially the poles, in the polar craters, much of that water came from comets that crashed into the moon and the ice fragments remained there, and it is believed that there is also water in areas closer to the Equator under the surface, also old comet impacts.

NASA had a mission with a space probe called trailblazer, it was critical and very strategic because this probe would have the objective of mapping the existence and location and also the state of water on the surface of the moon, knowing where that water is located, at what depth and knowing the amount there may be, because it will be essential to establish a permanent human base on the moon, we are going to need water and not only to drink, but also to get oxygen, to get fuel and to get a lot of elements and grow food.

The probe was launched on February 26 of this year with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, but something went wrong and on July 31, NASA declared this mission lost. Additionally, we have the issue at the moment, because it is not known if in the end NASA is going to give up on the conquest of the Moon or simply leave it to the Artemis mission, the one in 2027, to land on, take humans to the moon and will give up all the rest, which would be the lunar base and a lunar orbital station.

It seems that they are going to give it up to focus on going to Mars, which would be the plan that Elon Musk presented, I don't know how it's going to happen, I don't know what's going to happen. If they manage to reach Mars, they would have first met the objective of being the first to reach Mars in this century before China, that would be an important propaganda objective, it will dawn and we will see as they say.

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