Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Tons of water ice found on moon's north pole
[ Tue, 2 Mar 2010 01:15:17 GMT ]

NASA's Mini-SAR instrument found more than 40 small craters with water ice. Although the total amount of ice depends on its thickness in each crater, it's estimated there could be at least 600 million metric tons of water ice. The red circles denote fresh craters; the green circle mark anomalous craters. Vast pockets of water ice numbering in the millions of tons have been discovered at the north pole of the moon, opening up another region of the lunar surface for potential exploration by astronauts and unmanned probes, NASA announced Monday.


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