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China is about to launch an ambitious moon mission to hunt for ice in one of the solar system’s coldest places - NBC News

By Reuters

China is poised to launch Chang’e-7, its most technologically complex lunar mission to date, in search of frozen water near the moon’s south pole.

China is poised to launch Change-7, its most technologically complex lunar mission to date, in its search for frozen stores of water in permanently shadowed craters near the moons south pole.
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China is about to launch an ambitious moon mission to hunt for ice in one of the solar system’s coldest places - NBC News

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