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The hypothetical mission would launch by 2025 and focus on lunar regolith, which is a fancy name for lunar soil. While lunar soil has no organic content, it does contain molecular oxygen and water. It also has helium-3, an isotope that has the potential to be a future energy source. The ESA's website says that helium-3 "could provide safer nuclear energy in a fusion reactor, since it is not radioactive and would not produce dangerous waste products."
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