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"Widespread Distribution (click here) of OH/H2O the lunar surface inferred from spectral data"
Hydrogen is deposited everywhere, not just the moon, by solar winds. Sol burns hydrogen. Does that mean Mars has H2O, too? If that is the case, then every sun burning hydrogen has a solar system with similar characteristics as Sol.
Mining the moon is not realistic. Just because a few hundred pounds of moon rocks came back with astronauts, doesn't mean a few million pounds is a good idea. The moon is a satellite in balance with Earth's gravity. Go mine somewhere in another solar system.
Occupying and mining Earth's moon is similar to the climate crisis; it involves more than the USA's Wall Street interests.
...“We find that it doesn’t matter (click here) what time of day or which latitude we look at, the signal indicating water always seems to be present,” said Joshua Bandfield, a senior research scientist with the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and lead author of the new study published in Nature Geoscience. “The presence of water doesn’t appear to depend on the composition of the surface, and the water sticks around.”...