It is the best of times and the worst of times for lunar scientists. "We've got a revolution going on in our understanding of the lunar surface," says Rick Elphic of NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. Three recent missions have found an unexpectedly large supply of water on the moon that could both quench the thirst of future lunar dwellers and produce fuel for missions to other places in the solar system.

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