# China hunts for lunar ice in one of the solar system’s coldest places

https://mins.news/en/item/27885

- Reuters, 2026-08-21 00:50 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://www.reuters.com/science/china-hunts-lunar-ice-one-solar-systems-coldest-places-2026-08-21/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a87a0c9f7c24d00010fa2e4

> China is preparing to launch Chang’e-7, its most technologically complex lunar mission so far, to search for frozen water in permanently shadowed craters near the moon’s south pole.

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