Water ice waits in the Moon's deepest shadows — ChillScroll

A deep shadowed lunar crater with a faint patch of ice on its floor

Water ice waits in the Moon's deepest shadows

Sunlight never reaches the floors of some craters near the Moon's poles. Space missions have found high concentrations of water ice inside these permanently shadowed places.

The brightest object in our night sky keeps some ice where the Sun never reaches.

Source · NASA Science ↗