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Published online 26 March 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030324-3
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Five times more water on Moon?
Doubling of cold, dark lunar craters raises human colonisation hopes.
The Moon may harbour five times more water than we thought, reckon researchers in the United States who have doubled previous estimates of how much of the lunar surface is permanently dark. This is encouraging news for those in favour of human colonization of the Moon.
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