Nearly 40 years on, water found in Apollo lunar samples.

[pete.dakota]

Interesting-

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080709-moon-water.html

I suppose this may chance the scientific basis behind choosing landing sites for future missions?

 

[ar81]

Water come from comets. Could it be that such water was preserved after an impact on the moon? I know it is more exciting to think there was water there. But unless you find water erosion, I do not see a reason to think about moon having water.

 

[Jebusy]

hmm...couldnt the samples have gotten the water from spending 40 years on earth.

 

[pete.dakota]

hmm...couldnt the samples have gotten the water from spending 40 years on earth.

Second paragraph of the article;

"[FONT=&quot]The water was found inside volcanic glass beads, which represent solidified magma from the early moon's interior."[/FONT]

So that seems very unlikely.

ar81, you're probably right. Perhaps a comet impact with the Earth resulted in water ice being flung up toward the Moon. It's quite obvious that the Moon never harboured water in the same way the the Earth does, or Mars did.

 

[Moonwalker]

I think that little tracks of water won't change sponsors minds and so manned space flight.

We have so much water down here on Earth. Just put your hands in it and drink. If you would have to find, get and extract the water that might be on the lunar saurface you certainly would die with thirst

 

[n0mad23]

Well, it is possible there's water ice trapped under some of the deepest and darkest craters in the Aitkens Basin (S. Pole).

I think it's also possible there's a lot of proto-planetary rock scattered around the surface, and if this is the case, there's trapped water in them.

Of course this could all be wishful thinking, as well.

 

[JamesG]

The technique the guy used was to vaporize the sample and then spectrographed the results.
Its as likely that the process released hydrogen and oxygen from the compounds they had been locked into for eons and combined in the test chamber into water molecules as it is for these to be primordial water "droplets".

Either way, its finally been proofed that, "Yes Virgina, there is water up in them thar moon..."

 

[Hashy]

Luna has been cold for a very very long time... No atmosphere to trap in any left over heat from the crust cooling like Earth, let alone continuing to retain heat from the Sun, keeping water in a liquid state, giving enough time for water erosion to take place..

Ice... Its bloody winter down here boys.