Water found inside the moon

[Sam Fraser]

Last fall, researchers... discovered “lunar dew” on the moon’s surface — absorbed “water” in the uppermost layers of lunar soil. Now, scientists...have discovered that water on the moon is more widespread — on the outside and inside of the moon — with some similarities to water in volcanic systems on Earth.

http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2010/07/21/water-on-moon-is-widespread/

Don't get too excited, it's only ~1,600 parts per million. I wonder if deep down there are seams of concentrated water ice from long-dead lunar vulcanism?

[Rhyshaelkan]

This is still a good thing. Even at such minor amounts, when you are processing tons of regolith at a time for lunar industry. The water can be stored for its usual uses.

1600ppm = 16 kg of water for each metric ton processed. Sure it is not an ocean. But certainly useful.

[asteroid-wildcat]

This is from a Universetoday.com article.

"The two instruments are revealing there are likely massive amounts of water in the permanently shadowed craters at the poles, with over 600 million metric tons at the north pole alone. "

http://www.universetoday.com/70174/radar-images-reveal-tons-of-water-likely-at-the-lunar-poles/

[joertexas]

This is from a Universetoday.com article.

"The two instruments are revealing there are likely massive amounts of water in the permanently shadowed craters at the poles, with over 600 million metric tons at the north pole alone. "

http://www.universetoday.com/70174/radar-images-reveal-tons-of-water-likely-at-the-lunar-poles/

That's very good news :D

JR