How to Drink Lunar Volcano Water

Early and frequent volcanic eruptions on the Moon may have led to the formation of thick ice sheets which are now buried under layers of regolith.

IMAGE: Scientists believe that the moon’s snakelike Schroeter’s Valley was created by lava flowing over the surface. CREDIT: NASA Johnson

Let’s look way back in the past to the early days of the Moon when volcanoes erupted with geologic frequency. Those volcanoes covered the surface in what we now see…