Being this was found at the poles, it makes complete sense there should be some trace of anything that can be frozen there.
BUT.
One has to stop to realize, the Moon was declared to have no atmosphere. So. Like. What gives?
Realizing as well there is 'organic mass' picked up by the instruments, it was a blastedly good idea, NASA had the foresight to put the returning astronauts of the Apollo project in 'DeCon,' huh? Right? Smart folks at NASA.
NASA The plume at about 20 seconds after impact
Moon strikes found significant water (click title to entry - thank you)
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Friday, November 13, 2009
(11-13) 13:28 PST MOUNTAIN VIEW -- The spacecraft that sent a used-up rocket crashing into a crater near the moon's south pole last month uncovered "significant" quantities of water and possibly organic chemicals that may have come from comets that slammed into the lunar surface over billions of years, mission scientists announced Friday....
...Colaprete estimated that the impact churned up water vapor and tiny fragments of crystalline ice equal to about 25 gallons of pure water and said the instruments aboard the spacecraft revealed the presence of many organic chemicals yet to be identified in the debris....
...As to the water itself, Colaprete said the Cabeus crater, where temperatures are as low as 365 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, is probably "a little wetter" than Chile's Atacama desert, the driest of any deserts on Earth....
BUT.
One has to stop to realize, the Moon was declared to have no atmosphere. So. Like. What gives?
Realizing as well there is 'organic mass' picked up by the instruments, it was a blastedly good idea, NASA had the foresight to put the returning astronauts of the Apollo project in 'DeCon,' huh? Right? Smart folks at NASA.
NASA The plume at about 20 seconds after impact
Moon strikes found significant water (click title to entry - thank you)
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Friday, November 13, 2009
(11-13) 13:28 PST MOUNTAIN VIEW -- The spacecraft that sent a used-up rocket crashing into a crater near the moon's south pole last month uncovered "significant" quantities of water and possibly organic chemicals that may have come from comets that slammed into the lunar surface over billions of years, mission scientists announced Friday....
...Colaprete estimated that the impact churned up water vapor and tiny fragments of crystalline ice equal to about 25 gallons of pure water and said the instruments aboard the spacecraft revealed the presence of many organic chemicals yet to be identified in the debris....
...As to the water itself, Colaprete said the Cabeus crater, where temperatures are as low as 365 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, is probably "a little wetter" than Chile's Atacama desert, the driest of any deserts on Earth....
