to the lunar surface. Legacy Data Shapes Commercial Moon Strategies Although the Moon appears desolate from Earth, its regolith holds materials such as water, iron and titanium that could dictate where future outposts are built. Knowing that these...

volatile analyser, ground-penetrating radar, and a neutron detector. These tools will work in tandem to examine the lunar regolith, helping scientists understand how these volatile materials have remained trapped in darkness for billions of years....

Technologies Current exploration has only scratched the surface, literally, by surveying the top few meters of the lunar regolith. Scientists hold out hope that deeper subsurface layers might contain larger, untapped reserves. Until those deposits are...

the geological record has been obscured by thick blankets of ejecta produced by asteroid impacts, or potentially by porous regolith that absorbs crustal stress without forming recognizable faults. Global maps of the used data sets. (a) Digital terrain...