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    Posted: 15 Jun 2010 at 10:43am
Which makes it even sadder that we won't be going back any time soon. Abundent water makes a lunar base even more plausible.
 
 
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Moon%20%28Nasa%29 Some of the water on the Moon may have been delivered by comets

The Moon might be much wetter than previously thought, a group of scientists has said.

A US-led team analysed the mineral apatite in lunar rocks picked up by the Apollo space missions and in a lunar meteorite found in North Africa.

The scientists found that there was at least 100 times more water in the Moon's minerals than they had previously believed.

The new study has been published in the journal PNAS.

This group is one of several different teams of researchers hunting for evidence of water on the Moon - and clues to how it got there.

Lead author Francis McCubbin from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC told BBC News that the water content on the Moon ranges from 64 parts per billion to five parts per million.

"It would be about 2.5 times the volume of the Great Lakes," he said.

"Or another way of looking at it - if you took all of the water that was locked up inside the rocks of the Moon and put them on the surface, it would make a metre-thick layer covering the Moon."

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Always thought it looked like a giant sponge...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote MartinW Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Jun 2010 at 2:39pm
Stupid statement. You waste my time you do. Angry
 
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A cheese sponge? Mmm, tasty...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote MartinW Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16 Jun 2010 at 9:28am
Thats better, much more sensible.
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