The Science of Sustainability  Much More Water on the Moon than
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Email  Artist's rendering of the LCROSS spacecraft and its upper
stage Centaur rocket. Image courtesy of NASA.  Reported for
Last year, NASA scientists in Mountain View made international
headlines when they crashed a rocket into a permanently shadowed
crater on the moon's south pole and announced they had found
water there.  On Thursday, they unveiled new findings about the
amount of water on the moon and a "treasure trove" of gases and
metals buried within the lunar soil, which along with the water,
could be extracted to make rocket fuel on the moon. The research
appears in the October 22nd edition of the journal Science.  "If
you took the 10 kilometer region around the LCROSS site, that is
said to have 5 percent concentration of water, that would be
equivalent to a billion gallons of water," said Tony Colaprete,
the principal investigator on the Lunar Crater Observation and
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