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Thursday September 9th 2010

Water Water everywhere….

It doesn’t rain but it pours! Certainly thats what it feels like when within just a short few hours you start to hear about water on the moon (yes the moon!) and now on Mars.

Given the fact that water may be more abundant than previously thought it is reasonable to deduce that we can use this information to help us decide possible future landing sites for when we finally send men back to the Moon. The water was found on the far side of the moon, and the amounts are reasonably small (tiny really), and not all of it is H2O, with  HO (Hydroxl a water molecule consisting of one Hydrogen and one Oxygen atom)  making up the most of it. 

But water is water (almost) and given that we have now found more than we expected, this is good news…but lets see what happens next.

Source - Nasa

Source - Nasa

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