Thursday, October 28, 2010

APOD 2.1

10/25/10 Water Ice Detected Beneath Moon's Surface
This image shows the relative H2O content of the Moon, with blue areas containing ice below the surface and red areas dry. The thought of having people live for short intervals on the Moon is quite provocative, and having native supplies of water there would certainly make it easier. I don't understand why the scientists crashed LCROSS, a perfectly good satellite just to see if Cabeus crater contained any water, but perhaps they just had absolutely no use for the satellite anymore.

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