00:03The moon is pretty dead, meaning no atmosphere and no life.
00:07But now experts say it may actually have one of the hallmarks of a living world,
00:11and an abundance of resources for future human missions in the form of tons and tons of H2O.
00:16We've known that there's water on the moon for a while.
00:18The only thing is we weren't sure exactly where all of it was or how to harvest it.
00:22But now researchers working with lunar samples brought back by the Chang'e 5 mission have made a discovery.
00:27They have found water inside tiny beads of lunar glass, meaning there could be billions of tons of water on
00:33the moon.
00:33The researchers say that each gram of glass could contain as much as 2,000 micrograms of water.
00:38When extrapolated to the moon's greater mass, that means there might be as much as 297.6 billion tons of
00:44water trapped in lunar particles.
00:46And if we could only find a way to process that lunar material on a large scale,
00:50we might not have to worry about water consumption quite as much when we eventually set up a moon base.
00:54But the researchers are looking beyond the moon, saying if this can be found there, it might also occur on
00:59other cosmic bodies as well.
01:01We'll see you next time on the moon!
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