This research could come extremely useful for future moon explorations as scientists say we can already start thinking about possible methods that would allow us to extract the precious mineral, either as drinking water for future astronauts on the moon or as a necessary element to produce fuel.

The new research was published in the Journal Science Advances and builds on the discovery made in 2009 when experts detected water and a related molecule called hydroxyl, which is composed of one atom of both hydrogen and oxygen – in the lunar soil.
With the help of NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper, which flew aboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists were able to calculate how much water was present on the surface of the moon.

Speaking about the discovery, lead author, Dr. Shuai Li, who performed the work while a Ph.D. student at Brown University and is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hawaii said:

“The water signature is present nearly everywhere on the lunar surface, not limited to the Polar Regions as previously reported. We have discovered that the amount of water increases toward the lunar poles and does not show significant difference among distinct compositional terrains.”

Scientists say that water concentration reaches a maximum average ranging between 500 to 750 parts per million in higher lunar latitudes.

While this isn’t much—its in fact less than what’s found in the sands of Earth’s driest deserts—however, its still enough, and much more than previously calculated.
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