Moon Water – a little off-topic but I know there are numerous folks that are
interested.
I have missed some of the recent posts, so I hope I am not repeating things.
The big surprise this year has been the realization that there IS a “lot” more
water on the Moon than previously thought. Not just where the sun never
shines, but nearly everywhere. This realization comes from combining the
results of multiple missions: Deep Impact, Cassini, M3 (Moon Mineralogy
Mapper) and Chandrayaan-1. So it is pretty certain that there is water nearly
everywhere (more some places than others) but that’s still not much – estimates
are about a liter per ton of lunar material. That’s dryer than any desert on
Earth.
It’s a surprise, and there is still no good idea how it got there.
Ain’t Science Grand?
DirtDoc
