# How Will We Extract Water on the Moon

We know the Moon contains water, but, could future astronauts access and make use of it? That’s the goal. At NASA, we’re actively trying to answer that question. Once it lands at the lunar south pole, our PRIME-1 — Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 – will robotically sample and analyze ice from beneath the lunar surface, contributing to our search for water on the Moon: https://go.nasa.gov/2QygCmF Producers: Jessica Wilde, Scott Bednar Editor: James Lucas

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2026
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: NASA Headquarters
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:How_Will_We_Extract_Water_on_the_Moon.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASA Headquarters
- 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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