Water discovered on the Moon

[Mindfreak87]

http://news.uk.msn.com/world/article...ntid=149883277

India's first lunar mission has found evidence of large quantities of water on its surface.

Data from the Chandrayaan probe suggests water is still being formed on the moon.

Nasa's website says it will hold a media briefing to "reveal new scientific findings about the moon" from data collected during national and international space missions.

The announcement comes two weeks before a Nasa probe purposely smashes near the moon's south pole in an attempt to find buried ice.

Quote: Nasa.gov

These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. On the left is an image showing brightness at shorter infrared wavelengths. On the right, the distribution of water-rich minerals (light blue) is shown around a small crater. Both water- and hydroxyl-rich materials were found to be associated with material ejected from the crater.

Credits: ISRO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS/Brown Univ.

[Spruebox]

Neat. That would help if for whatever reason they decided to set up a colony on the moon in the future, right?

[Bayhem]

Very, very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

[Trailbreaker]

This...changes...EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!

[Drake]

I'll believe it when I see it. The thing has no atmosphere and huge temp variations. I'm a skeptic, here.

[Mindfreak87]

I'll believe it when I see it. The thing has no atmosphere and huge temp variations. I'm a skeptic, here.

This video explains to us what this discovery actually is:

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video...er.on.moon.cnn

[MrX]

Water on the moon, Who'd a thunk it?

[littleman794]

yusss...now we can live there and get crushed by decepticons!!! w00t!!! my death would mean so much to me if it were under megatrons foot

and his last words were "awesome"

[Swift]

Although space water is incredibly dense. Cool find though XD

[Cold As Ice0004]

You think we woulda have discovered that first... when we "walked on the moon".

[MrX]

You think we woulda have discovered that first... when we "walked on the moon".

We didn't have the technology to look for water on the moon in 1969.

[Mindfreak87]

Water Detected at High Latitudes on the Moon

NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, an instrument on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 mission, took this image of Earth's moon. It is a three-color composite of reflected near-infrared radiation from the sun, and illustrates the extent to which different materials are mapped across the side of the moon that faces Earth.

Small amounts of water were detected on the surface of the moon at various locations. This image illustrates their distribution at high latitudes toward the poles.

Blue shows the signature of water, green shows the brightness of the surface as measured by reflected infrared radiation from the sun and red shows an iron-bearing mineral called pyroxene.

Image Credit: ISRO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Brown Univ./USGS