The Moon has Billions of Gallons of Water

[Missourian]

Water on the moon? Scientists used to think it was as dry as, well, lunar dust. But after a year of analysis NASA today announced that its LCROSS lunar-impact probe mission found up to a billion gallons of water ice in the floor of a permanently-shadowed crater near the moon's south pole. That's enough, said researchers, to fill 1,500 Olympic-size swimming pools, all from one crater. If there is ice there, it probably exists in other places on the moon as well. They also found silver, mercury, carbon monoxide and ammonia.

Good news for China and India, not so good for us thanks to President Obama.

There is no saying whether astronauts will get to use that ice any time soon. The Obama administration early this year canceled the Constellation project, which had been proposed by President George W. Bush, to return astronauts to the moon and eventually send them on to Mars.

Water on the Moon: NASA Impact Probe - ABC News

 

[Mr. H.]

Can't they find better uses for Olympic sized swimming pools?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

How much water does Mecca have?