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No cities on the Moon — there isn’t enough water, scientists say

Summary by Frontiers
The discovery of water at the poles of the Moon has inspired speculation about whether we can build there – cities, industrial neighborhoods, places where people work and live. But is there enough water, and can we use it efficiently enough? In their new article in Frontiers in Space Technologies, Dr Martin Elvis and Dr Jonathan McDowell do the math. Even at the most generous estimates of the available water and recycling efficiency, a city of o…

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A study by Harvard shows: the cities on the Moon remain a mirage, the polar water is enough only for a century. The article No city on the Moon: the water lasts a century, then enough is taken from the Future Next.

The authors of the study reported good and bad news regarding the existence of human settlements on Earth's satellite.

Sting sang in 1979 in "Walking on the Moon" the weightless floating over the moon's surface – a The post Why no cities on the moon are possible first appeared on Nordic.info.

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Frontiers broke the news in Switzerland on Monday, September 14, 2026.
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