Moon Has 100 Times More Water, New Study Suggests
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From: Yousuf Khan on 16 Jun 2010 11:37 SPACE.com -- Moon Has 100 Times More Water, New Study Suggests ""If we were to take all the water that is locked up inside the moon, and put it in a homogenous layer on the lunar surface, it would cover the moon to about a meter depth," he explained. In comparison, if all the water that is locked up in Mars was put on the lunar surface, it would cover the moon to a depth of about 0.93 miles (1.5 km). And, if the same is done for all of the water inside the Earth, it would cover the entire lunar surface to a depth of 155 miles (250 km). " http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/moon-interior-higher-water-content-100614.html
From: Brad Guth on 16 Jun 2010 19:59 On Jun 16, 8:37 am, Yousuf Khan <bbb...(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote: > SPACE.com -- Moon Has 100 Times More Water, New Study Suggests > ""If we were to take all the water that is locked up inside the moon, > and put it in a homogenous layer on the lunar surface, it would cover > the moon to about a meter depth," he explained. > > In comparison, if all the water that is locked up in Mars was put on the > lunar surface, it would cover the moon to a depth of about 0.93 miles > (1.5 km). And, if the same is done for all of the water inside the > Earth, it would cover the entire lunar surface to a depth of 155 miles > (250 km). "http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/moon-interior-higher-water-cont... Why of course fused basalt holds water, and so what? Are you crazy folks now suggesting there's 1e11 tonnes of frozen water on the moon and humanly accessible? Inside of that physically dark and apparently monochromatic sucker, almost anything goes as being possible. However, the more than crystal dry and vacuum surrounded surface is not hardly molecular water friendly. ~ BG
From: John Curtis on 16 Jun 2010 22:02 On Jun 16, 8:37 am, Yousuf Khan <bbb...(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote: > > SPACE.com -- Moon Has 100 Times More Water, New Study Suggests > ""If we were to take all the water that is locked up inside the moon, and > put it in a homogenous layer on the lunar surface, it would cover the moon > to about a meter depth," he explained. > > In comparison, if all the water that is locked up in Mars was put on the > lunar surface, it would cover the moon to a depth of about 0.93 miles (1.5 > km). And, if the same is done for all of the water inside the Earth, it > would cover the entire lunar surface to a depth of 155 miles (250 km). " http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/moon-interior-higher-water-content-100614.html > Below ~3200 K oxygen in space is bound to hydrogen as water. Thus, oxygen in lunar rocks is derived from water and not from molecular oxygen. Every molecule of lunar crust contains at least 4 atoms of oxygen, that is 4 molecules of water were destroyed in the making of a molecule of crust. How much water was consumed in the making of 50-60 km of lunar crust. Perhaps Europa can serve as a guide with an ocean 160 km deep. All planets were probably endowed with the same budgets of water and only planets below sublimation temperatures were able to preserve their pre-Archaean oceans. John Curtis
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