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The ice would also be pretty close to the Moon's peaks of eternal light[1] where you don't have to have your solar panels spend half of every month in darkness. So basically where you'd want to live on the Moon if you had to pick somewhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_of_eternal_light



Isn't that also related to why the Lunar Gateway (the proposed space station component of the current Artemis project at Nasa) was proposed to be in a lunar polar orbit?


You can easily reach every spot froma polar orbit as the moon rotates under your orbit




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