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Friday November 13, 2009 · 4:37 PM PST

2009/11/13 · 16:37

No, Bowie!*

Is there water on the moon?

“Indeed yes, we found water,” Anthony Colaprete, the principal investigator for NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, said in a news conference. “And we didn’t find just a little bit. We found a significant amount.”

Wtf?

There is water on the Moon, scientists stated unequivocally on Friday.

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The confirmation of scientists’ suspicions is welcome news both to explorers who might set up home on the lunar surface and to scientists who hope that the water, in the form of ice accumulated over billions of years, holds a record of the solar system’s history.

The satellite, known as Lcross (pronounced L-cross), crashed into a crater near the Moon’s south pole a month ago. The 5,600-miles-per-hour impact carved out a hole 60 to 100 feet wide and kicked up at least 26 gallons of water.

“We got more than just a whiff,” Peter H. Schultz, a professor of geological sciences at Brown University and a co-investigator of the mission, said in a telephone interview. “We practically tasted it with the impact.”

More at the New York Times.

Who knew? I'm not a scientist, so I have little to add. Except that I can see the moon from my front door. (Does this make me qualified to gauge the water there?)

I think I wouldn't mind living on the moon. Portable environments. Perpetually dusty floor. Gravity backaches. Hm. This is all stuff you should consider, people. I guess this diary is about how looks can be deceiving.

*Well, maybe.

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