This is big. NASA has confirmed that 3 lunar probes equipped with mineral composition mapping instruments have confirmed that there is, in fact, water on the moon.
The presence of good old H2O on the Moon’s surface was confirmed in one of three papers published in the journal Science. According to one of them, a Moon Mineralogy Mapper onboard the Indian satellite Chandrayyan-1 detected light waves indicating a chemical bond between oxygen and hydrogen.
Larry Taylor of the University of Tennessee, co-authored the paper.
One ton of the moon’s surface, in which the water’s ingredients are held, could hold up to 32 ounces (or one quart) of water, according to three reports from research teams who studied data from three spacecrafts.
The water was discovered in rocky environments and in craters.
Two other probes that detected water on the Moon were the U.S. spacecraft Cassini and Deep Impact.
As I said, this could be huge, could it not? After all, where there is water, there is often life.
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