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To: agere_contra
water ice on the moon to support a base. And the lunar regolith is stiff with He3

Some water vapor might be venting from a couple of craters. You'd have to get really serious about mining to recover any He3 and there is still no commerical use for it.

29 posted on 08/03/2007 8:14:51 AM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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might be venting water vapor

The "might" could be verified with relatively inexpensive unmanned landers - instead NASA comes up with a multi-billion dollar Moon program, and uses that "might" as a teaser, instead of quickly sending out the probes (it could be done cheaply in less than a year) to check.

31 posted on 08/03/2007 8:18:38 AM PDT by Fitzcarraldo (Skip the Moon, go for Mars)
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