Thursday, October 21, 2010

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Water on the Moon: NASA Impact Probe - ABC News: "Water on the moon? Scientists used to think it was as dry as, well, lunar dust.

But after a year of analysis NASA today announced that its LCROSS lunar-impact probe mission found up to a billion gallons of water ice in the floor of a permanently-shadowed crater near the moon's south pole."

3 comments:

Kieran Shea said...

isn't this like saying i've got this great tequila you should try but you have to go deep into Mexico and steal it from the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel‎‎? the moon? damn, we better be freaking thirsty.

mybillcrider said...

Apparently the U. S. is giving up on going back to the moon. Someone else will be doing the drinking.

Brent McKee said...

The idea is that you can convert the water into hydrogen and oxygen for space flights. Think of the moon as a space gas station.