{"id":144517,"date":"2026-01-20T05:59:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144517"},"modified":"2026-01-20T05:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:59:06","slug":"first-contact-in-quest-for-water-on-the-moon-chinese-team-flags-risk-in-touching-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144517","title":{"rendered":"First contact: in quest for water on the moon, Chinese team flags risk in touching ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s Chang\u2019e-7 mission this year will be the world\u2019s first to attempt to sample and directly measure water on the moon, but just touching lunar ice could mean losing it, a team of scientists warns in a new paper.<br \/>\nIts spacecraft is expected to touch down near the rim of Shackleton crater at the lunar south pole, where it will deploy a rover and hopper to search for ice.<br \/>\nWhile water could support long-term human activity on the moon, from providing drinking water and oxygen to producing rocket&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3340513\/first-contact-quest-water-moon-chinese-team-flags-risk-touching-ice?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s Chang\u2019e-7 mission this year will be the world\u2019s first to attempt to sample and directly measure water on the moon, but just touching&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144517"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}