ISRU technique · In-Situ Resource Utilisation · In development
Water Extraction
Mining and extracting water and volatiles — from the permanently-shadowed craters at the lunar poles and from water-bearing carbonaceous asteroids such as Bennu. Water is the keystone resource: it provides drinking water, breathable oxygen, radiation shielding, and rocket propellant.
In-Situ Resource UtilisationIn development
Highlights
- ›Water is the keystone resource for living in space
Worlds, stations & materials
Knowledge connections
- Member of groupIn-Situ Resource Utilisation
- Associated withThe Moon
- Associated with101955 Bennu
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.