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There is Water on the Moon

Publish: 2009-11-14 21:49:25    Editor: Channel   Source: CP  

NASA said Friday it had discovered water on the moon, opening "a new chapter"
There is Water on the Moon

There is Water on the Moon

NASA said Friday it had discovered water on the moon, opening "a new chapter" that could allow for the development of a lunar space station.

The discovery is based on preliminary data collected when the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, intentionally crashed October 9 into the permanently shadowed region of Cabeus crater near the moon's south pole.

New observations from three different spacecraft give us “unambiguous evidence” of this now fact.
 
 

 

These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. On the left is an image showing brightness at shorter infrared wavelengths. On the right, the distribution of water-rich minerals (light blue) is shown around a small crater. Both water- and hydroxyl-rich materials were found to be associated with material ejected from the crater. Photo Credit: ISRO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS/Brown Univ.

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