hannah sargeant is a fellow of the royal astronomical society as planetary scientist at the open universityme we've known that is frozen water in the polar regions of the moon, but this new research is really exciting because it tells us there's more water than we realised and actually in these areas that are sunlit, which means it's going to be more easily accessible than we previously thought, so itjust opens up the opportunities for finding and accessing this water. and how can we access it? what do we need to do in terms of missions and further exploration and experiments? yeah, so currently we have missions heading to the polar regions to look for this water ice but these are quite hazardous, you have to go to extremely dark and extremely cold craters, but now this opens up areas where we can send landers and rovers which don't require such difficult restrictions on where they can access, and they can simply dig it up. and i think what's interesting is, how is this water stable? because we thought that this water on the moon with no atmosphere would just vaporise, so how is it stored?