Thursday, September 24, 2009

WATER! WATER EVERYWHERE! Click on this page to read more on the discovery that water is widespread across the Moon’s landscape...

Two photos showing the lunar surface, and where water is located beneath it.
ISRO / NASA / JPL - Caltech / USGS / Brown Univ.

...and check out this article to read about water ice being found in several Martian craters.

Two photos showing water ice inside a Martian crater, before the ice sublimates (vaporizes) into gas.
NASA / JPL - Caltech / University of Arizona

Does this mean future astronauts won’t have to rely solely on ‘yesterday’s coffee’ (RE: recycled urine) to hydrate themselves when we finally go back to the Moon, and eventually land on Mars? We shall see.
Posted by Richard Par at 12:07 PM

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