Water Found in Apollo Samples
Department:
Our Moon
Teaser:
"[T]he 'dry Moon' paradigm took a hit last week when researchers led by Francis McCubbin (Carnegie Institution of Washington) announced that they'd found water (in the form of its ion hydroxyl, OH) in assorted samples from the Apollo 14 mission."
Source:
SkyandTelescope.com's Most Recent Blog Postings Download time: Jun 22 2010 8:55 AM ET
When I returned from a week in Australia (to help welcome home Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft), my overloaded In Box was chock full of fascinating astronomy news.
Among the most fascinating was the publication of results about lunar water. Now, those of you who read S&T's blogs regularly know that H2O on the Moon has been big news recently. Last year teams of researchers used data from three different spacecraft to determine that a microscopic film of water molecules or hydrated minerals or both cling to much of the lunar surface. Then, on October 9th, NASA vaporized some lunar frost by slamming its LCROSS probe into a permanently shadowed crater.…
See SkyandTelescope.com's Most Recent Blog Postings for links to further info.
