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Water on the moon? Scientists used to think it was as dry as, well, lunar dust.
But after a year of analysis NASA today announced that its LCROSS lunar-impact probe mission found up to a billion gallons of water ice in the floor of a permanently-shadowed crater near the moon's south pole.
That's enough, said researchers, to fill 1,500 Olympic-size swimming pools, all from one crater.
But after a year of analysis NASA today announced that its LCROSS lunar-impact probe mission found up to a billion gallons of water ice in the floor of a permanently-shadowed crater near the moon's south pole.
That's enough, said researchers, to fill 1,500 Olympic-size swimming pools, all from one crater.
Water on the Moon: a Billion Gallons
Scientists report there is water ice on the moon in large quantities. The LCROSS lunar impact mission -- a used rocket deliberately crashed into a shadowed crater in October 2009 -- kicked up 41 gallons of ice when it hit. Extrapolating from that, researchers say there may be a billion gallons...
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