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Since the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_17 Apollo 17] mission in 1972, the Moon has been visited only by unmanned spacecraft, notably by Soviet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod Lunokhod] rovers. Since 2004, Japan, China, India, the United States, and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Agency European Space Agency] have each sent lunar orbiters. These spacecraft have [[confirmed]] the [[discovery]] of lunar [[water]] ice in [[permanently]] [[shadow]]ed craters at the poles and bound into the lunar [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regolith regolith]. [[Future]] manned missions to the Moon are [[planned]] but not yet underway; the Moon remains, under the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty Outer Space Treaty], [[free]] to all nations to [[explore]] for [[peace]]ful [[purposes]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon]

Since the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_17 Apollo 17] mission in 1972, the Moon has been visited only by unmanned spacecraft, notably by Soviet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod Lunokhod] rovers. Since 2004, Japan, China, India, the United States, and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Agency European Space Agency] have each sent lunar orbiters. These spacecraft have [[confirmed]] the [[discovery]] of lunar [[water]] ice in [[permanently]] [[shadow]]ed craters at the poles and bound into the lunar [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regolith regolith]. [[Future]] manned missions to the Moon are [[planned]] but not yet underway; the Moon remains, under the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty Outer Space Treaty], [[free]] to all nations to [[explore]] for [[peace]]ful [[purposes]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon]

[[Category: Astronomy]]

[[Category: Astronomy]]