The Selenological and Engineering Explorer, a Japanese space probe surveying the lunar surface, has discovered Uranium on the moon using a gamma-ray spectrometer.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s probe also discovered iron, calcium, titanium, magnesium, silicon, thorium, and potassium.

The result provides a potential power source for a future lunar base and/or mining operation. Known uranium deposits on earth should last another century but extraction is environmentally damaging and very expensive.

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