Moon's water is useful resource


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There are oases of water-rich soil that could sustain astronauts on the Moon, according to Nasa.

Scientists studied the full results of an experiment that smashed a rocket and a probe into a lunar crater last year.

The impacts kicked up large amounts of rock and dust, revealing a suite of fascinating chemical compounds and far more water than anyone had imagined.

A Nasa-led team tells Science magazine that about 155kg of water vapour and water-ice were blown out of the crater.

The researchers' analysis suggests the lunar regolith, or soil, at the impact site contains 5.6% by weight of water-ice.

"That's a significant amount of water," said Anthony Colaprete, from the US space agency's Ames research centre.

"And it's in the form of water-ice grains. That's good news because water-ice is very much a friendly resource to work with. You don't have to warm it very much; you just have to bring it up to room temperature to pull it out of the dirt real easy."

And he added: "If you took just the 10km region around the impact site and say it had 5% water - that would be equivalent to about a billion gallons of water. I'm not saying that's what's there, but it just shows you that even at these small concentrations there's potential for lots of water."

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Anyone want to start up a company to sell homeopathic moon water?

As long as it doesn't turn into what happened after Desert Storm...

some idiot was taking sand from Arizona and selling it online as

being from the middle east. lol

No. To learn more.

The mysteries of life may, or may not, ever be answered.

Colonizing other planets is a sure thing.

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No. To learn more.

If we don't look for other places we can live in, humanity will die out. At some point, slowly but surely I'm sure we'll start moving out of Earth.

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If we don't look for other places we can live in, humanity will die out. At some point, slowly but surely I'm sure we'll start moving out of Earth.

we will, its just a matter of time.....

considering a few years ago we were still making "knives" from stone, we're deffo going places

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