And Water Ice On The Moon

[hazelm]

Scientists have directly observed water ice at the moon's poles.

 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180820203638.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_science+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Science+News%29

 

 

[Vmedvil2]

That is a place that I would have never guess that water would be..... on the moon.

[hazelm]

That is a place that I would have never guess that water would be..... on the moon.

That was my thought also.  Quite a surprise.   Did we disrupt its environment?

[exchemist]

That was my thought also.  Quite a surprise.   Did we disrupt its environment?

No this will not be anything to do with Man's visits. Comets and meteorites carry water, so collisions with the moon would naturally import water from time to time. It will have survived only at the poles because that is where there are areas of permanent shadow from the sun, so it does not evaporate or get dissociated and disappear back into space.  

[hazelm]

No this will not be anything to do with Man's visits. Comets and meteorites carry water, so collisions with the moon would naturally import water from time to time. It will have survived only at the poles because that is where there are areas of permanent shadow from the sun, so it does not evaporate or get dissociated and disappear back into space.  

Makes sense to me.  Thanks.