Water found on Moon by Nasa: Q&A
  Here is a Q&A about the discovery of water on the Moon.
    By Matthew Moore
    Published: 7:00AM GMT 14 Nov 2009

What exactly has Nasa found?
The equivalent of 24 gallons of frozen water, mixed in with the rock and dust that was thrown into the air when a rocket was deliberately crashed into a crater near the Moon's south pole last month. It is far from the science fiction fantasy of an underground lake, but still pretty impressive for a satellite long dismissed as arid and dull.

Didn't we know there was water on the Moon already?
Scientists have long suspected that there was water on the Moon, but have struggled to prove it. The sensors on orbital craft have detected evidence of hydrogen on the lunar surface, but the quantities were tiny. A major breakthrough came last September, when India announced that its Chandrayaan-1 craft had detected that chemical reactions producing water are still taking place.



Where does the water come from?
No one is certain. One theory suggests that hydrogen released by the Sun in solar winds could have reacted with compounds containing oxygen in the Moon rock, producing tiny amounts of H20. Another explanation proposes that the water came from vapour produced when comets and meteors crashed into the Moon's surface.

What does this all mean?
Nasa has been so keen to find water on the Moon because it brings the dream of a permanent lunar base one step closer. If water exists in the quantities that Nasa now believes, it could be drunk by astronauts, turned into oxygen to make stations inhabitable and – most excitingly – converted into fuel. The Moon could then become the space equivalent of a service station – acting as a staging post for manned missions to Mars.

Izvor: Telegraph.co.uk

nasao sam nesto  na srpskom
Izvor http://www.b92.net/zivot/vesti.php?nav_id=383071

To sam i ja našao (MTS Mondo) i stavio u prvi post, ali sam tek onda vidio da je to stara vijest od 24. septembra.

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Otkrivena voda na Mesecu

Preliminarni podaci Lunar Crater Observation i Sensing Satellite, ili LCROSS misije, pokazuju da je misija uspešno otkrila vodu tokom testa 9. oktobra u tek otkrivenom regionu Kabeus kratera u blizini Južnog pola Meseca, saopštila je NASA.

- Rešili smo jednu misteriju našeg najbližeg susedstva i vasionskog tela koje veoma utiče na prilike na Zemlji i solarnom sistemu. Jasno je da Mesec i dalje krije mnoge tajne, a LCROSS je pomogao da se jedna otkrije, izjavio je naučnik u NASA-i, Majkl Vargo.

NASA je 9. oktobra uspešno lansirala dva svemirska broda na Južni Mesečev pol kako bi pronašli tragove skrivenog leda.

Naučnici su dugo špekulisali o izvorima vodonika koji je primećen na polovima ovog Zemljinog satelita, a otkrića LCROSS-a daju novu dimenziju mogućnosti postojanja vode, i u to mnogo raširenijoj i u većim količinama nego što se ranije smatralo. (Economy.rs, 13. novembar 2009)

Izvor: Economy.rs