100 times more water on Moon than thought

• devil2000

  16 Jun 10, 12:16

  WASHINGTON: Moon has hundred times more water than was previously thought, and it could be widespread deep under its surface, planetary scientists have claimed.
  
  A US-led team has based its findings on an analysis of the mineral apatite in lunar rocks picked up by Apollo space missions and in lunar meteorite found in Africa and say that there is at least 100 times more water in the Moon’s minerals that was previously believed.
  
  “Water may be ubiquitous within the lunar interior,” the planetary scientists wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “For over 40 years we thought the Moon was dry. We found that the minimum water content ranged from 64 parts per billion to 5 parts per million — at least two orders of magnitude greater than previous results,” Francis McCubbin of Carnegie Institution of Washington, who led the team, said. “We can now finally begin to consider the implications and the origin of water in the interior of the Moon.”
  
  According to him, the water is not immediately accessible — it is incorporated in the rocky interior of the Moon.

  
  

  
  

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• I-like-flings(m)

  16 Jun 10, 12:23

  so it's a case of .... from 1ml of water becoming 100ml on the whole freaking moon right? 100times more what right? haha

• Paisley

  16 Jun 10, 13:00

  So means more swimming pool can be build on the moon?

• ~PEPPER~

  16 Jun 10, 16:34

  Wow nice discovery.

• LatecomerX

  16 Jun 10, 17:41

  Originally posted by I-like-flings(m):

  so it's a case of .... from 1ml of water becoming 100ml on the whole freaking moon right? 100times more what right? haha

  The moon weighs 81 billion tons, so even a 0.064 ppm would actually mean 5,184 tons of water on that rock.

   

• Arapahoe

  16 Jun 10, 20:31

  wow....... Moon Base Alpha by year 2100......Remember the TV series Space 1999.......

   

   

• ~PEPPER~

  16 Jun 10, 21:13

  Originally posted by LatecomerX:

  The moon weighs 81 billion tons, so even a 0.064 ppm would actually mean 5,184 tons of water on that rock.

   

  
  U maths pro?

• Chester_Lim

  16 Jun 10, 21:24

  that means 1 day when the earth is gone we can migrate to moon?

• ~PEPPER~

  16 Jun 10, 21:26

  Originally posted by Chester_Lim:

  that means 1 day when the earth is gone we can migrate to moon?

  
  haha lol

• Kawac151

  16 Jun 10, 21:34

  So, i think we can go fishing there?

• troublemaker2005

  16 Jun 10, 21:57

  ceh what's the moon to us ayway? we now orchard road got million times more water this afternoon.

• Rooney9

  16 Jun 10, 22:00

  maybe moon got oil, gold and other minerals. how man  then greedy mining companies will go mining at moon le

• BadzMaro

  16 Jun 10, 22:02

  How abot trick them all up there..

  n blow them all up at one go.

  hahaha