Water on the Moon  New research shows water present across the
Moon’s surface  These images show a very young lunar crater on
the side of the Moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by
NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research
Organization’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. On the left is an image
showing brightness at shorter infrared wavelengths. On the
right, the distribution of water-rich minerals (light blue) is
shown around a small crater. Both water- and hydroxyl-rich
materials were found to be associated with material ejected from
the crater. Credit: ISRO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS/Brown University
It turns out the Moon is a lot wetter than we ever thought.
When Apollo astronauts returned from the Moon 40 years ago, they
brought back souvenirs in the form of Moon rocks to be used for
scientific analysis, and one of the chief questions was whether
there was water to be found in the lunar rocks and soils.    "To
some extent, we were fooled," said Taylor, a distinguished
Professor of Earth and