Ice Ice Maybe: New Ways to Search for Frozen Water on the Moon
Researchers are developing new methods to locate frozen water on the Moon to support future NASA Artemis missions. The project uses specialized vacuum chambers to simulate lunar conditions and analyze how regolith interacts with ice.
The image released in 2018 shows the distribution of surface ice at the Moon's south pole (left) and north pole (right), detected by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument. Blue represents the ice locations, plotted over an image of the lunar surface, where the gray scale corresponds to surface temperature (darker representing colder areas and lighter shades indicating warmer zones). The new approach developed by Lisabeth, Schmerr, and Siegler could help future rovers and astronaut teams locate these ice deposits from the surface.
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