Two US spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral to search for water on the Moon's south pole, crucial for NASA’s future lunar missions. One is a commercial lander, aiming for a milestone landing close to the pole with NASA instruments, including a robot drill for ice. The other, Lunar Trailblazer, is an orbiter that will create detailed maps of lunar water. Understanding the distribution of water on the Moon could aid human exploration and provide resources for rocket fuel, enhancing missions planned for the next few years.
The lander aims to touch down closer to the Moon's south pole than any previous mission, delivering NASA instruments including an ice-hunting robot drill to search for lunar water.
Lunar water could provide resource benefits for exploration, potentially serving as raw ingredients for rocket fuel, fundamentally altering the approach to future lunar missions.
Parvarthy Prem emphasizes the importance of these missions, stating they are crucial pieces of the puzzle in understanding the distribution and quantity of lunar water.
Two spacecraft, one a commercial lander and the other an orbiter, are set to investigate lunar water at the south pole, bolstering NASA's lunar exploration plans.
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