Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Moon Ice

NASA has found ice on the Moon. A satellite orbiting the moon has been taking images of the lunar north pole, and found evidence of water ice. It seems to only exist inside craters that remain in shadow all the time. Places that are exposed to sunlight seem to lose ice to evaporation.

How much ice is up there? NASA says maybe 600 million metric tons. That's a volume of water that's larger than Cross Lake, but smaller than Toledo Bend.

Here's more information... http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Mini-RF/multimedia/feature_ice_like_deposits.html

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