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Moon's Water Comes in Three Flavors, Scientists Say

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Since the surprise discovery last year of trace amounts of water on the moon, scientists have been redefining their concept of Earth's rocky neighbor. Now researchers say the water on the moon comes in three different flavors.





Until recently the moon was thought to be bone dry. But measurements in the last year from the Mini-SAR and Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3 or M-cubed) instruments on India's Chandrayaan-1 moon probe and from NASA's recent LCROSS mission have proved that wrong.



Full story link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100322/sc_space/moonswatercomesinthreeflavorsscientistssay
 
Evil Eye said:
I wonder how long it'll take some company to start selling it...



Shipping charges alone would be astronomical!
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