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NASA confirms water on the moon

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It’s been known for a long time that hydrogen is abundant in the polar regions of our moon, but until today, it wasn’t known for sure that that hydrogen was in the form of water ice.

On October 8th, ’09, NASA ‘bombed’ the bottom of a permanently shadowed crater near a polar region of the moon by crashing part of a rocket into it. That crash sent up clouds of dust, rock, and whatever else that had been under the dust for billions of years. The orbiter still in the sky over the impact zone then analyzed the stuff that was ejected by the crash and sent the data back to earth.

After crunching all that data, NASA scientists today announced their findings:

“We are ecstatic,” said Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. “Multiple lines of evidence show water was present in both the high angle vapor plume and the ejecta curtain created by the LCROSS Centaur impact. The concentration and distribution of water and other substances requires further analysis, but it is safe to say Cabeus holds water.”

Source: NASA.