Laser-driven moon rovers could mine lunar water ice

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A powerful laser could send energy to an ice mining rover 15 km away in the Moon’s shadowed craters.

A metal cutting laser could power an ice hunting robot in the dark, shadowed, lunar craters where a polar human outpost is expected to find frozen water.

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