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Revisable science

Posted on March 18, 2010 | Comments Off on Revisable science

New discoveries of significant amounts of water (at least six-feet of water ice in each of forty craters) on what was long considered a bone-dry Luna show why today’s AGW to-do hardly can be considered “settled”:

“If you converted those craters’ water into rocket fuel, you’d have enough fuel to launch the equivalent of one space shuttle per day for more than 2000 years. But our observations are just a part of an even more tantalizing story about what’s going on up on the Moon.”

Via Science@NASA.

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Show me the water

Posted on September 23, 2009 | Comments Off on Show me the water

We’ve heard several times that there may be water on Luna. In the form of ice on the surface, and, perhaps, some liquid underground. NASA is expected to unveil Thursday research showing "a lot of water" exists on the surface.

From the AAAS journal Science advancer to Science writers: "…three reports utilize data collected by three separate spacecrafts to provide evidence of hydroxyl (OH) or water – or both – on the surface of the Moon. These findings are forcing a reexamination of the notion that our Moon is completely dry."

If there is abundant water, it makes a colony more feasible, as well as the refueling of spacecraft for interplanetary travel. As it says here I’m ready to believe. Just show me the water.

UPDATE:  Here’s the NASA version. Suspiciously timely, given recent cancellation of back-to-the-moon? Naw.

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