Thread: Water on the Moon confirmed

Seriously, pretty cool.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LC...r_results.html

Originally Posted by The article

"Along with the water in Cabeus, there are hints of other intriguing substances. The permanently shadowed regions of the moon are truly cold traps, collecting and preserving material over billions of years."

awesome, gonna fly this boat to the moon!

Well, of course, it´s pretty good to know for sure that there´s water...
But till we´re gonna get there...

Great now why doesnt NASA invent a quarter million mile long straw so we can put that water to some use.

Originally Posted by StealDragon

Great now why doesnt NASA invent a quarter million mile long straw so we can put that water to some use.

lmao. that's the plan actually

Well, it's more like building an outpost near the water supplies.

Getting there isn't a problem really, but prolonged stay will require massive amount of research and development before getting all pumped up about it

how much of water???

a whole cupful and then some

It's gonna depend on the form of the found water. Since the collision threw up craptons of crust material, it's impossible to tell whether the water is in the soil or formed an actual frozen lake. All we now know is that there is water in some form. Hopefully there's a lot of it, since it's very expensive to transport it from the Earth. Several tens of thousands of dollars each liter.

Anyone that would ship water from a moon to a planet 70% covered in the stuff needs to to be slapped.