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![]() In the novel, water could be found by mining on the Moon. The habit of clipped speech Russian style is seen in the words of the narrator.
This is not the first reference to the idea of mining ice on the moon; I don't know if there are earlier references in science fiction - readers?
The possibility of ice in the floors of polar lunar craters was first suggested by scientists in 1961 by Caltech researchers Kenneth Watson, Bruce C. Murray, and Harrison Brown. The first scientific suggestion that water ice existed on the lunar surface came in 1994; Clementine, a military space probe, beamed radar energy onto the lunar surface in such a way as to bounce it to radar stations on Earth. Analysis appeared to show that the echoes were consistent with an icy surface as opposed to a rocky surface. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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