This is fantastic news for the Chinese manned lunar program! I wish the USA had one.
If the Chinese are correct in their analysis that there is lots of helium-3 there too, they’ll have water, oxygen, energy, fuel all in one convenient place. Add a beanstalk or two and you own the Solar System. Well, maybe they’ll need to figure out fusion once they have several tons of He3.
When we get back to the moon, there won’t be anyplace to plant the wheat because of all of the rice paddies... /s
"Discovery.com and Space.com report this all changed when actual measurements were taken using the Mini-SAR and Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3 or "M-cubed") instruments on India's Chandrayaan-1 moon probe and NASA's recent LCROSS mission when the moon was "bombed.""