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India's Chandrayaan-3 launches to explore moon's water-rich south pole (www.newscientist.com)

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India has launched its Chandrayaan-3 mission, which aims to explore the south pole of the moon by rover, completing a scientific mission that was first attempted in 2019 but ended in catastrophic failure due to a software glitch

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have a source for that? I can only find info about it being used for fusion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

hmm, I guess I'm wrong. I read about helium-3 a long time ago and I must have mistaken the purpose. I guess helium-3 is a byproduct of fission and can be used for fusion, but the energy cost to produce it in this manner is massive and isn't sustainable.

Helium-3 is filtered out by the atmosphere so very little of it occurs naturally on earth, the lunar surface was the best/easiest place to mine for it.