This Ingenious Microwave Could Help Turn Moon Ice Into Clean Drinking Water

NASA’s Artemis mission aims to build the foundations of long-term human presence on the Moon by the end of the decade. To achieve this aim, space agencies have to go back to the fundamentals of human survival: food, water, and shelter. In that spirit, a team of researchers from a British tech company has won £150,000 ($194,070) for developing an innovative system to provide clean drinking water on the Moon. Their SonoChem System won first place in the international Aqualunar Challenge, a competition funded by the UK Space Agency and organized with the Canadian Space Agency and others. The challenge seeks to propel technological innovation for future lunar habitation, specifically in regard to accessing clean drinking water on the Moon. The UK Space Agency announced the winners in a statement published Thursday. “Astronauts will need a reliable supply of water for drinking and growing food, as well as oxygen for air and hydrogen for fuel,” Meganne Christian, chair of the Aqualunar Cha ... Read full article.