# NASA’s Polar Ice Experiment Paves Way for Future Moon Missions (KSC-20250213-MH-NAS01-0001-CLPS)

An innovative NASA experiment is preparing for its journey to the Moon as part of Intuitive Machines’ second launch to the lunar surface. The Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) will be delivered through NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative on the next lunar flight. Designed to investigate the Moon’s subsurface, PRIME-1 will demonstrate groundbreaking technology to extract and analyze lunar soil, paving the way for sustainable human exploration under NASA’s Artemis campaign. In this video, Jackie Quinn explains how PRIME-1’s two key instruments – the Regolith and Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrains (TRIDENT) and the Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSOLO) – will work together to search for resources beneath the lunar surface. The Athena lander, carrying PRIME-1 and other NASA technology demonstrations and science investigations, will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center no earlier than Feb. 26. For more information about CLPS, visit https://www.nasa.gov/clps.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2025
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: NASA Kennedy Space Center
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA%E2%80%99s_Polar_Ice_Experiment_Paves_Way_for_Future_Moon_Missions_(KSC-20250213-MH-NAS01-0001-CLPS).webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASA Kennedy Space Center
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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