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Shadowed Lunar Craters May Be Coldest Spot In the Solar System

Posted by Soulskill on from the alright-niven-get-cracking dept.

sciencehabit writes "Science reports: 'What's the coldest spot in the solar system? For now, that distinction belongs to permanently shadowed craters near the moon's south pole, according to the first results from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft announced today at a NASA press conference. Another instrument has returned hints of water ice in some of these cold spots, ... but it also showed signs of water ice in impossibly hot places, too.'"

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  1. Re:Not the coldest spot. by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is not the coldest spot, it is simply the coldest *known* spot.

    To be intentionally pedantic, it's the coldest *measured* spot. We "know" spots like Triton that may qualify, but it has not been measured in the detail the moon has.
         

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