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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>Ice deposits that may be hidden beneath a layer of lunar dust could potentially be exploited by future expeditions to the Moon, researchers suggest. A new study conducted by researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder postulates that volcanic activity that occurred on the Moon aeons ago may have led to the emergence of thick ice sheets on the lunar surface.<\/p>\n

In their research, published in The Planetary Science Journal, the team explored the possibility that volcanic outgassing could have led to the formation of surface ice on Earth\u2019s only natural satellite.<\/p>\n

Using computer simulations in an attempt to gauge the processes that transpired during the Moon\u2019s distant volcanic past, the researchers determined that vast amounts of water vapour were expelled by volcanoes from the lunar interior and became ice that may still exist in the craters that dot the Moon\u2019s landscape.<\/p>\n

Paul Hayne, assistant professor at the university\u2019s Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences and Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and co-author of the study, even suggested that the said ice stores could potentially be exploited by future manned missions to the Moon, as the frozen water could be used for drinking or making rocket fuel.<\/p>\n

The team\u2019s findings suggest that as much as 18 quadrillion pounds of volcanic water on the Moon could have ended up condensing as ice, and that much of that frozen water may remain to this day, although a majority of the ice could be buried beneath a layer of lunar dust.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. Ice deposits that may be hidden beneath a layer of lunar dust could potentially be exploited by future expeditions to the Moon, researchers suggest. 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