LCROSS Confirms "Buckets"of Water on the Moon

[Ice Pick]

Quote: The LCROSS team announced today the mission successfully uncovered water during the Oct. 9, 2009 impacts into the permanently shadowed region of Cabeus cater near the moon’s south pole. "Indeed yes, we found water. We didn't find just a little bit we found a significant amount," said Tony Colaprete, principal investigator for LCROSS at a press conference. The team was not able to put a concentration of how much water is held in the lunar regolith, but in a fraction of the 20-30 meter crater the impact made, they were able to observe about 25 gallons (95 liters) of water with spectroscopic data. Colaprete held up a 2-gallon (7 liter) bucket, to demonstrate how much they found.

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/11...r-on-the-moon/

[Betrade]

There may be way more water on the moon than we had ever imagined.

I read about a small lake or pond of water on the moon a few years back. It was frozen of course but it was supposedly a significant amount as I recall.

[medlar]

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What other secrets will the moon reveal? The analysis continues!

They had me up until there.

Which, okay... that's the end. But still.

Hydroxyl signatures consistent with a water vapor cloud in sunlight aren't going to fill my Moon Jacuzzi

Where there is water there is whiskey to be made. Moonshine that is.

I can't help but think that a far superior race is laughing at us as we try so diligently to study this rock..
see he's loling

[Ice Pick]

Moonshine

But seriously, this is just another reason to return to the Moon. If that is indeed water, it has many uses. There could more water on the Moon then previously thought.

[Dogberry]

So where did the buckets come from