Water on the moon. No water on the moon. Yes, water on the moon; seriously, this time.

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From Dateline Zero - This isn’t exactly brand-new news. Water on the moon was announced in the recent past. Then it was unannounced. Now it is being announced again.

After a year of analysis NASA today announced that its LCROSS lunar-impact probe mission found up to a billion gallons of water ice in the floor of a permanently-shadowed crater near the moon’s south pole. That’s enough, said researchers, to fill 1,500 Olympic-size swimming pools, all from one crater. If there is ice there, it probably exists in other places on the moon as well. They also found silver, mercury, carbon monoxide and ammonia.

From an ABC News article: “Water on The Moon: A Billion Gallons.”

LCROSS was an empty rocket stage that was deliberately crashed into the moon last year, while a small satellite trailing it took chemical measurements of what it kicked up.

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