NASA confirms the presence of an important Molecule on Moon
27th October 2020: NASA mission has found water on the sunlit surface of the Moon.
Baaghi TV: NASA shared their recent discover from Moon in a press conference on Monday.
As per news from the CNN, there may be more water on the moon than previously believed, including on its sunlit surface. This water could be used as a resource during upcoming missions, like NASA’s return of humans to the lunar surface through the Artemis program.
The two studies published in the journal Nature Astronomy and researchers shared their findings during a NASA press conference on Monday.
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1320876642621861888?s=20
In the first study, researchers used SOFIA to observe the moon at a wavelength that revealed the signature of molecular water, or H2O.
“For the first time, water has been confirmed to be present on the sunlit surface of the moon,” said Paul Hertz, director of the astrophysics division at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate during Monday’s press conference.
“We had indications that H2O, the familiar water we know, might be present on the sunlit side of the moon. Now we know it is there. This discovery challenges our understanding of the lunar surface and raises intriguing questions about resources relevant for deep space exploration.”
Previous research revealed traces of water on the surface of the moon near the south pole.
The SOFIA detections confirm that water can be found trapped in glass beads or in between grains on the moon at its high southern latitudes in Clavius Crater. This is one of the moon’s largest craters visible from Earth. There, water is present between 100 to 400 parts per million, or roughly equivalent to a 12-ounce bottle of water, according to NASA.
Reports from NASA tell us that the fact that this water is inside grains or in between grains on the lunar surface helps protect it from the moon’s harsh and irradiated environment.
“Prior to the SOFIA observations, we knew there was some kind of hydration,” said lead study author Casey Honniball in a statement. “But we didn’t know how much, if any, was actually water molecules — like we drink every day — or something more like drain cleaner.” The published study captures the results from Honniball’s graduate thesis work at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa in Honolulu.
“Without a thick atmosphere, water on the sunlit lunar surface should just be lost to space,” said Hanniball, now a postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “Yet somehow we’re seeing it. Something is generating the water, and something must be trapping it there.
More SOFIA flights are planned in the future to follow up on this discovery and look for water in more sunlit spots on the moon. This will help researchers determine how exactly the water is created, stored and moves across the lunar surface. This will help NASA in future to determine how to extract that water for use as a resource.
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