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Our Moon holds this key to space travel

by JoAnna Wendel

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Inside the craters of our ancient, pockmarked satellite may lie a valuable resource: water.

Apollo-era Moon rocks showed no evidence of water on the Moon, so scientists in the 1960s thought our satellite was dry.

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