Recent studies have significantly expanded our understanding of water on the Moon, revealing that it is not just confined to the polar regions but spread across the entire lunar surface. Using data collected by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), aboard the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists identified water and hydroxyl molecules (OH) across various regions of the Moon, altering previous beliefs that lunar water was mainly found in the permanently shadowed craters at the poles. A New View of Lunar Water: Beyond the PolesPrevious studies had shown that wa…