Water has been found on the moon! A few figures I quickly calculated: The moon‘s surface area is 3.793 × 10^7 km.  Scraping off a few millimeters of soil that contain water would yield 75,860 cubic meters of soil containing 1 liter of water each. So the theoretical upper yield (assuming no other water on the moon) is 75,860 liters, which is about 20,040 gallons of water.   For context, this would fill a little over 3% of a standard 164×82 ft Olympic pool. According to How Stuff Works, it costs about $50,000 per pound to get stuff to the moon. […]
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