2 de março de 2010

Lua: água - e não é que Obama desistiu (por enquanto, espero) de ir lá; que nos valha a China!

"Craters at the north pole of the Moon. Red mean fresh craters and green means anomalous craters. 
Credit: NASA"

"It's no longer a question of if there is water on the Moon; now it is how much. Scientists using the Mini-SAR instrument on India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft have detected water ice deposits near the moon's north pole. Mini-SAR, a lightweight, synthetic aperture radar, found more than 40 small craters with water ice. The craters range in size from 2 to15 km (1 to 9 miles) in diameter. Although the total amount of ice depends on its thickness in each crater, it is estimated there could be at least 600 million metric tons of water ice." 

Water Ice Found on Moon's North Pole | Universe Today

Sem comentários: