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Posted on 06/14/2010 8:04:31 PM PDT by Nachum
The moon's interior may harbor 100 times more water than previous estimates, according to a new study that took a fresh look at samples of moon rocks collected by Apollo astronauts nearly 40 years ago.
The researchers determined that the lunar water likely originated early in the moon's formation history, suggesting that it is, in fact, native to the moon.
Scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, and other colleagues, said it's likely that the water was preserved from the hot magma that was present when the moon began to form – some 4.5 billion years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Moon River . . . .
Thankfully, the EPA has already drafted a new conservation policy; it should only cost a few hundred million a year to implement.
/mark
Oh but Ozero sez we’ve been there before so no point going back. Total fool.
Guess he’s never heard of helium 3.
You can bet the Russians and Chinese have.
The solar system is screaming for us to explore it.
“The current policy is to think about things..... launch nothing, do nothing and build nothing.” -Astronaut Story Musgrave
That’s amazing! Water evolved on the moon too! Soon there will be life, and a little while later a muslim kenyan resident.
Mmmmmmmm, mmmmmmmm, mmmmmmmmph!
You usin’ the whole fist, Doc ?
From one gram to 100 grams.
Is there enough to setup a still? My Scottish acestors wanna know!
In round figures, anyway...
Water? Water we got plenty of. Report back when they find something of value, like maybe Moon Maidens.
“We found that the minimum water content ranged from 64 parts per billion to 5 parts per million – at least two orders of magnitude greater than previous results.”
So yeah, that’s very dry, and note that they’re talking about hydrated minerals, the water is part of the rock. This is a different thing than the water ice that was claimed to be detected in the South Polar crater.
Everybody knows it takes water to make cheese...sheesh!
The missing piddle pack from Apollo 11 has been found.
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That is the Mishipishu (stegosaur) petroglyph at Masinaw, Lake Superior. No modern animal has dorsal spikes or a "great spiked tail" such as Amerind oral traditions describe Mishipishu as having.
The people telling us that the moon is 4.5 billion years old are the same idiots who tell us the stegosaur died out 65,000,000 years ago.
Houston, did you see the size of that fish?
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