We know the Moon has water, so could future astronauts access and make use of it? We're working on it. Once it lands at the lunar South Pole, our Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) will robotically sample ice from beneath the lunar surface: go.nasa.gov/2QygCmF

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Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1)

NASA’s Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) is leading development of the lunar drill called TRIDENT, which can core out a hole roughly three feet deep on the lunar surface.

^{Eric Vitug (NASA)}