The Revolt and The Revolting: If arguments of sovereign rights at the Arctic Ocean isn't enough to stress any State Deparment, the question still remains, "Who owns the Moon?"

Thursday, October 21, 2010

If arguments of sovereign rights at the Arctic Ocean isn't enough to stress any State Deparment, the question still remains, "Who owns the Moon?"

That is no minor question when one realizes the USA is the only country that has invested both human capital and fiscal capital in Moon flights.

Moon's surface may hold enough water for a manned base (click here)

Analysis of debris thrown up when a rocket was crashed into a crater on the moon suggests about 5.6% of the material there was frozen water

Ian Sample, science correspondent

guardian.co.uk, Thursday 21 October 2010 19.00 BST

...In a series of papers published in the journal Science, Nasa researchers describe how the crash punched a crater in the moon between 25m and 30m wide and created a plume of debris more than half a mile high. Sensors aboard LCROSS detected about 155kg of ice in a single "snapshot" following the impact. In one of the papers, a team led by Anthony Colaprete at Nasa's Ames Research Centre in California estimated that frozen water accounted for about 5.6% of the material in the crater....