In 1971 the mission Apollo 15 was the center of attention of the NASA, and the astronauts David Scott and James Irwin, the ship, they gathered some samples of lunar rocks during his expedition. The NASA analyzed them each times to find some type of water evidence in the Moon, but the tests failed and it was decreed that the Moon was arid …
… until last year, when the water presence in the moon was confirmed officially. After it, the NASA decided to look backwards and analyze again the rocks of the mission Apollo 15 to see if the hardware with which the science is provided today, water tracks could meet in them. And this way it was. Last week there discussed the finds in the Spot and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in Houston, Texas, and it does a pair of days they leaked out officially.
Small water molecules quantities can it was finding in rocks like the same as above, the brought ones by the mission of 1971, which appear in thousandth parts for million.
In the previous years it was impossible to detect so small water quantities in the rocks, but the NASA has obtained it with the modern analysis skills. “Only in the last decade we count it with sufficiently sensitive instruments as to analyze the water in this concentration”, tells Gary Lofgren, healer of the Spatial Center Johnson of the NASA.
The water find in the Moon stayed on forty years; if it should be carried out before insurance we would have been provided with at least the double of lunar spatial missions, give it made.
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