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A New Study Shows the Moon's Interior Could Contain Water (npr.org)
A new study from Brown University shows the moon might be flowing with more water than we thought, thanks to ancient volcanic deposits. NPR reports: Using satellite data, scientists from Brown University studied layers of rock on the moon that likely formed from large volcanic eruptions, called lunar pyroclastic deposits. The magma created by these eruptions has been carried to the moon's surface from very deep within its interior, the study showed. What's interesting about this new study, though, is that it shows the water is far more than just ice hiding in shadowy areas of the moon. In fact, there are likely pools of water in the moon's mantle, as well. If there's water in the moon's mantle, that suggests that the water was delivered to the moon very early in its formation, before it fully solidified, the study's lead author, Ralph Milliken told Space.com. Because the magma originally comes from deep within the lunar interior, Milliken explains, "the deep interior of the moon must also contain water."
Well, the moon does look like a sponge.
It could contain Grits. What's the point of this? Moon hype after the Mars hype is dead?
Evidence that Ivanka was selling clothes to the Russians there?
We recently found out there's a LOT of water under Earth's crust and WE LIVE HERE. At this point there could be basically anything on the moon. We don't have the technology to even start to speculate.
All we need is a report that the Moon contains oil and the tech will be devised to send the full force of the US military's might to the Moon, to liberate it from its oppressors. Once millions of soldiers and their supporting infrastructure and supply lines are established, they will realize there's no oil, establish a colony, and use said weapons to secure independence. Mission accomplished!
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
Since the scientific consensus is that the moon was scooped out of the Pacific Ocean by a collision with a planet sized body, this should not be all that surprising.
They're claiming that the magma comes from deep under the mantle. Ok sure. Somehow that's evidence that there's water down there too? Summary made no assertion that water was detected in the magma.
If there is water, there could have been at least plant life.
If there where plants, there would be coal and oil..
Het Americans : There is oil on the moon.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
We can't even keep our own water clean!
Eruption of magma is a great sign of water..
Only proves that there is hydrogen and oxygen in the interior... And a bit of heat. Well, enough heat to produce a reaction. An old fashioned sulphur match easily does the job, magma does much better.
Even in relatively cool and stable environment of the moon, there might still be enough residual heat to produce rather copious amounts of sublunatanian water that boils itself to, and through the mantle.
Might not be enough to create geysers (wink wink), but could easily build up frozen aquifers that would squeeze up to the surface (kinda like glaciers) and reveal themselves as sublimating gaseous water vapors varying according to interior buildups and surface topogriphis.
Contain cheese. There are conflicting reports.
my hypothesis correct, hypotheses today are referred to by ignoramuses as 'studies'.
Geez, almost half-a-hundred postings and yet NO PUN. :(
So with all these supercomputers and geeks on the planet, nobody had calculated the gravitational pull, size, weight, and internal composition of the moon?
Why didn't the moon buggy carried one of those gravimeter/gravitometer to determine the internal composition of the moon?
Perhaps this is where God took all the water from the great flood
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Average Intelligence is a Scary Thing
An excellent example of why we don't use stone tablets to record scientific knowledge.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
He left all the bullshit on Earth.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire