155 ltrs water found on moon
Here's a cheerful article, up to one billion gallons of water in the Cabeus crater, it opens up all kinds of questions about building a lunar base at a time when NASA is in turmoil due to budget cuts;
Nasa has revealed that there are oases of water-rich soil that could possibly sustain astronauts living in an outpost on the Moon.
Scientists from the US space agency found 155 litres of water after analysing a plume of debris that was created when they deliberately crashed a rocket into the lunar surface last year.
Reports published in Science magazine on Friday show that a large amount of water in the form of ice, as well as carbon monoxide, ammonia and silvery metals, were found near the south pole of the Moon following the crash on October 9, 2009.
The estimate represents only what scientists can see from the debris plume and it is almost twice as much as researchers had initially measured.
Morris Jones, a space analyst based in Australia, told Al Jazeera that the amount of water found is more than scientists ever expected.
"It's beyond our wildest expectations," he said.
"There is so much water that we feel pretty confident that we can go there, live there, build bases there and help the Moon become a permanent outpost for humanity."
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/am...571455382.html
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