Moon on the Water (Jackanory Story Books)

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SOFIA’s results build on years of previous research examining the presence of water on the Moon. When the Apollo astronauts first returned from the Moon in 1969, it was thought to be completely dry. Orbital and impactor missions over the past 20 years, such as NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, confirmed ice in permanently shadowed craters around the Moon’s poles. Meanwhile, several spacecraft – including the Cassini mission and Deep Impact comet mission, as well as the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan-1 mission – and NASA’s ground-based Infrared Telescope Facility, looked broadly across the lunar surface and found evidence of hydration in sunnier regions. Yet those missions were unable to definitively distinguish the form in which it was present – either H2O or OH. Water (from the tap, from a bottle, from a river… just make sure it’s safe to drink if you plan on doing so!). The Moon and Earth exert a gravitational pull on each other. On Earth, the Moon’s gravitational pull causes the oceans to bulge out on both the side closest to the Moon and the side farthest from the Moon. These bulges create high tides. The low points are where low tides occur. To what extent, and at what spatial scale, direct proton exchange (protolysis) and proton surface diffusion directly occurring at the naked surface of oxyhydroxide minerals exposed to space vacuum (see surface diffusion and self-ionization of water) could also play a role in the mechanism of the water transfer towards the coldest point is presently unknown and remains a conjecture. Use your Moon water as an offering to any deities associated with the Moon or water, like Isis, Diana, or Venus.

The near side of the moon is covered in large craters, which could change the additional components of moon-water found there. Encyclopaedia Britannica / Getty ImagesColaprete, A.; Schultz, P.; Heldmann, J.; Wooden, D.; Shirley, M.; Ennico, K.; Hermalyn, B.; Marshall, W; Ricco, A.; Elphic, R. C.; Goldstein, D.; Summy, D.; Bart, G. D.; Asphaug, E.; Korycansky, D.; Landis, D.; Sollitt, L. (22 October 2010). "Detection of Water in the LCROSS Ejecta Plume". Science. 330 (6003): 463–468. Bibcode: 2010Sci...330..463C. doi: 10.1126/science.1186986. PMID 20966242. S2CID 206525375. Ocean Conservancy is working with you to protect the ocean from today’s greatest global challenges. Together, we create evidence-based solutions for a healthy ocean and the wildlife and communities that depend on it. Seeing as the team at Central Hall had kindly offered to store our PA and lighting equipment it was an obvious choice to use that iconic venue to host these events. It was, in fact, the first time SOFIA has looked at the Moon, and we weren’t even completely sure if we would get reliable data, but questions about the Moon’s water compelled us to try,” said Naseem Rangwala, SOFIA’s project scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. “It’s incredible that this discovery came out of what was essentially a test, and now that we know we can do this, we’re planning more flights to do more observations.”

We had indications that H2O – the familiar water we know – might be present on the sunlit side of the Moon,” said Paul Hertz, director of the Astrophysics Division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “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.”

More suspicions about the existence of water on the Moon were generated by inconclusive data produced by Cassini–Huygens mission, [34] which passed the Moon in 1999. [ citation needed] 21st century [ edit ] Deep Impact The Central Hall team has worked hard to ensure the venue is Covid safe for all attendees and musicians. Foust, Jeff (2023-02-17). "Deep space smallsats face big challenges". SpaceNews . Retrieved 2023-09-15. Scientists have long suspected that large amounts of frozen water lurk in deep, polar craters that never see the Sun.