<img src=”https://naked-science.ru/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Image-1-1.jpg” alt=”Planetologists have found even more accessible places with water ice reserves on the Moon”/>The success of colonizing the Moon will depend on the availability of water ice. Surface temperature plays an important role here. That is why new missions are aiming for colder, polar regions. The soil temperature was directly measured in the 1970s, during the Apollo missions. But then the devices landed on the equator, several thousand kilometers from the proposed location of the future lunar base. In 2023, the Indian mission Chandrayaan-3 provided new data. Their analysis showed where other accessible water reserves may be located.