davidwr writes: Two days after the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, the journal Nature Geoscience published a paper claiming there may be “thick ice deposits inside permanently shadowed simple craters” on the moon. The paper compares craters on the moon to similar craters on Mercury that are known to contain thick ice deposits. While the article is paywalled, the dataset, code, references, and supplemental information are available on the abstract’s page. If the researchers’ ideas prove correct, it would mean that there are millions of tons of ice on the surface of the moon — far more than has been thought by most moon scientists.

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