Should we stop visiting the Moon’s poles? – BGR – BGR

• The Moon has water ice hiding near its poles, which is something that is a fairly recent discovery. 
• The ice could hold clues about where the water on Earth came from and tell us a lot about the history of the Earth-Moon system. 
• An increasing number of missions to the Moon’s poles could potentially contaminate the ice and taint future discoveries, scientists now warn.

The Moon is far from the dry, dusty rock that astronomers of decades past assumed it was. There’s actually water on the Moon, and…

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