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my country's Chang'e-5 lunar soil research has made new discoveries. After three years of in-depth research and repeated verification, a scientific research team composed of the Ningbo Institute of Materials, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and other units has discovered a new method of using lunar soil to produce large amounts of water. It is expected to provide important design basis for the construction of future lunar research stations and space stations.

Water is a key resource for building lunar scientific research stations and conducting future lunar interstellar travel to ensure human survival. Exploring water resources is one of the top priorities for lunar exploration. Scientists have previously focused on the distribution of natural water resources on the moon. Previous research results have shown that a variety of lunar soil minerals such as lunar soil glass, plagioclase, olivine and pyroxene contain a small amount of water, but the water content of these minerals is only between 0.0001% and 0.02%, which is extremely rare and difficult to extract and utilize in situ on the moon. Therefore, researching and detecting new lunar water resources and their mining strategies are undoubtedly the focus of future lunar exploration projects.

One ton of lunar soil is expected to produce more than 50 kilograms of water

After in-depth research and repeated verification, researchers found that the lunar soil minerals have stored a large amount of hydrogen due to billions of years of solar wind radiation. After being heated to high temperatures, hydrogen will undergo redox reactions with iron oxides in the minerals to produce elemental iron and a large amount of water. When the temperature rises above 1000°C, the lunar soil will melt, and the water generated by the reaction will be released in the form of water vapor.