>The back of the moon gets the same amount of sunlight as the front. silly me, yes even better then, since in theory there should always be some amount of wate

>The back of the moon gets the same amount of sunlight as the front. silly me, yes even better then, since in theory there should always be some amount of water vapor floating around? I just recall a weather phenomenon in Finland when the atmospheric temperature drops sufficiently that even the water vapor freezes and falls like 'stardust'. So would a big sun shield on the moon create a similar temperature drop allowing capture the ice crystals? maybe the moons gravity is insufficient.