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Gale
09-24-2009, 06:12 AM
Data from Chandrayaan-1 also suggests that water is still being formed on the Moon. Scientists said the breakthrough — to be announced by Nasa at a press conference today — would change the face of lunar exploration.

Dr Pieters has not spoken about her results so far and was not available for comment last night, according to colleagues at Brown University. But her results are expected to cause a sensation, and to set the agenda for lunar exploration in the next decade.
India’s lunar mission finds evidence of water on the Moon (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article6846639.ece)

I wonder if this will disrupt Nasa's plan to bomb the moon to see if there is water/ice on the moon.
How can water still be forming in space?

Norval
09-24-2009, 10:14 AM
, , , seems to be about an eye dropper of water per liter of lunar soil?

, , , or a glass of water from a baseball diamond size of ground on the moon?

Gale
09-25-2009, 04:57 AM
It is not a lot of water. In a two-litre soda bottle of lunar dirt, there probably would be a medicine dropper full of water, said University of Maryland astronomer Jessica Sunshine, one of the scientists who discovered the water. Another way to think of it is that a drink of water would require a 730 square meters of dirt to produce, said team leader Carle Pieters of Brown University.
Moon River? Not quite, but 3 space probes spot surprising signs of water in lunar soil (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090923/science/science_us_sci_wet_moon_1)