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Not only does the moon's surface hold a "significant amount" of water—as two NASA crashes confirmed in October—but, a new study says, the moon's interior may hold at least a hundred times more water than previously estimated.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/06/100614-moon-water-hundred-lunar-proceedings-science/
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Re: Moon Has a Hundred Times More Water Than Thought
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2010, 08:52 »
Last week Mars, now the Moon.  This is going to turn theories of the solar system upside down.  But when you think about it, if Earth got all its water from comets then it stands to reason that the comets which collided with all the other solar system bodies would have also contained water.  And now that we have been made aware that many famous comets such as Halley and Hale Bopp are interlopers from other stellar systems, it is pretty certain that most planetary systems must contain copious amounts of water too.  This bodes well for the existence of life elsewhere in the nearby galaxy because the Sun was formed within a cluster of hundreds of stars.  Many of these stars are well known objects in the night sky and include Sirius and most of the stars in the Plough.

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Re: Moon Has a Hundred Times More Water Than Thought
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2010, 14:05 »
lets colonize the f*** out of it.
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Re: Moon Has a Hundred Times More Water Than Thought
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2010, 15:55 »
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