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  • Top topics digest — the cards score the selected period against the prior 4 weeks.
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  • Coverage gap quadrant — scores the selected period against the 12 weeks before it (not including it).
  • Anomaly cards — only show alerts the detector fired during the selected period. Quiet weeks legitimately show none.
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  • Outlet orientation strip / lean colours — context-only, drawn from the last 12 weeks of activity regardless.
  • Co-occurrence graph — recent-activity anchored, not picker-driven.
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Lunar Ice Resource Potential

3 items · 3 aliases · peaked week of 16 Aug 2026 · first seen 14 Aug 2026

the presence of water ice in permanently shadowed craters at the lunar poles, potentially usable for fuel and oxygen production

The stories behind this signal

across press, releases & commentary · links open at the source
News China hunts for lunar ice in one of solar system's coldest places RNZ · 21 AugRead ↗ Commentary China is launching a Moon mission to find water ice. It’s unlike anything NASA has done The Conversation NZ · 20 AugRead ↗ Commentary Exploring the Moon will require rovers that can think for themselves – an upcoming NASA mission will test whether they… The Conversation NZ · 13 AugRead ↗

Sample framings

Up to 12 framings across outlets and orientations — each a short phrase the extractor generated to characterise the piece's editorial angle (not a quote). Filter by lean to see how each bloc is spinning the story; click through to read the original.

conversation-nz Centre-left

a critical but unresolved scientific question

China is launching a Moon mission to find water ice. It’s unlike anything NASA has done
20 Aug
conversation-nz Centre-left

water ice as a foundation for lunar economy

Exploring the Moon will require rovers that can think for themselves – an upcoming NASA mission will test whether they can
13 Aug

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 1 article from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 1 article

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