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The Living Moon => Anomalies on the Moon => Topic started by: rdunk on September 15, 2017, 12:18:02 AM

Title: Anomaly on the Moon - "WATER"
Post by: rdunk on September 15, 2017, 12:18:02 AM
I am posting this information as an "anomaly" on the Moon, because at least some of the general public consider the Moon to be just one big ball of dust and dirt. Not so, according to information such as this from NASA!!

Space.com has released an article today that does present in detail some of NASA's findings relative to water and water concentrations (PPM) that have been found on the Moon.

By Samantha Mathewson, Space.com Contributor | September 14, 2017 02:54pm ET

Scientists have for the first time mapped the distribution of water trapped in the moon's soil, which could come in handy for planning future missions to the lunar surface.

In 2009, NASA's LCROSS probe discovered traces of water and a related molecule called hydroxyl, which consists of hydrogen and oxygen, in soil on the moon. Building on this discovery, researchers from Brown University used data from NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, an instrument that rode on India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter, to create the first map of the water concentration of the uppermost portion of the lunar soil.

"The signature of water is present nearly everywhere on the lunar surface, not limited to the polar regions as previously reported," Shuai Li, lead author of the study, said in a statement from Brown University. "The amount of water increases toward the poles and does not show significant difference among distinct compositional terrains." [Photos: The Search for Water on the Moon]

Read more: https://www.space.com/38156-scientists-map-water-concentration-lunar-soil.html

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