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Simulation of a manned base on Mars, in a cross-sectional image of the underground base. Source: NASA Ames Research Center.

Scientists have detected hidden water ice on Mars: a game-changer for manned missions

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New research reveals shallow ice deposits on Amazonis Planitia in the mid-latitudes of Mars – a critical resource for water, oxygen and fuel that could enable long-term human presence and preserve possible evidence of ancient life
Infrared map of the lunar surface showing water absorption and crater surfaces. Thought for 4 seconds The false-color images show areas where water was found in a young lunar crater on the far side of the moon, as recorded by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument on the Indian Chandrayaan-1 mission.

DARPA solicits proposals for small lunar launcher to test low-altitude maneuvers and detect water

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In a paper published in the journal Icarus, Alex Nguyen, a graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis, used mathematical models and images from the New Horizons spacecraft to take a closer look at the ocean that he says likely covers Pluto beneath a thick layer of nitrogen, methane and water ice. (Image: NASA)

Surprise: an ocean of liquid water on Pluto

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They estimate that Pluto's ocean is, at most, about 8% denser than seawater on Earth, or about the same as the Great Salt Lake in Utah (but much less salty than the Dead Sea.
This illustration shows charged particles from Jupiter hitting the face of Europa, separating icy water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen molecules. The scientists believe that some of these newly formed oxygen gases can move into the moon's subsurface ocean, as the circled figure shows. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SWRI/PU

Will the moon Europa return? The Juno spacecraft discovered oxygen on Jupiter's moon

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NASA's Juno spacecraft directly measured charged molecules of oxygen and hydrogen from the atmosphere of Europa, one of Jupiter's largest moons. According to new research by scientists at SwRI and Princeton, these observations provided
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