Sentences with phrase «potential water deposits»

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Permanently shadowed craters on the moon are among the coldest known places in the solar system and have long been suspected to hide significant water deposits, a potential resource for future lunar outposts.

Circling the poles, the LRO will profile mineral abundances, scout potential landing sites, and look for water - ice deposits, imaging the terrain to a resolution of three feet.

In addition to water, organic molecules, which could have been deposited on the surface by crashing comets, somehow would have to get through the thick shells of ice for life to form, a situation that puts Saturn's geyser - spewing moon Enceladus at the top of Nimmo's list of potential spots for life.