Researchers NASA: Lots of Water on the Moon?

Some time ago, scientists say that the Moon may have more water than the Great Lakes. Another study conducted by the U.S. space agency NASA, said that the Moon likely has water 100 times more.

NASA officials said the water comes from melt inclusions in volcanic peak in the so-called "orange glass floor" collected during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. NASA explains that an instrument of art microdot ion, or so-called NanoSIMS 50 L microdots ions found from the data. And inclusions that formed during the eruption of the Moon about 3.7 billion years after forming liquids.

News about the summit magma on the Moon was published in the May issue
of Science Express as "inclusion Pre-eruption preserved its high water content in the lunar mass."

The scientists involved in this research, including Alberto Saal of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, reported that in 2008 the evidence that there is water on the Moon volcanic gases.

According to recent studies, it is believed that ice was also found in craters at the poles of the Moon by several NASA missions recently. The water was probably derived from volcanic eruptions, impacts of comets and asteroids collision.

"More sample test will help better analyze data on the moon where there is plenty of water. Even if there is only one million gallons of water contained in the crater Cabeus on the moon's south pole which is also found oil in 2009, the water will be very valuable for long-term missions in the future, especially if you want to build a by month, "said principal study author Erik Hauri.

The research was funded by the NASA Lunar Advanced Science and Exploration Research and Cosmochemistry at Washington in collaboration with Lunar Science Institute NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.