Lots of water on the moon

NASA sent a probe to the moon that took its old booster and threw it into a crater wall on the lunar pole; LCROSS mission. The idea was to make a large explosion of material from the moons surface that is in permanent shade (at -230 deg C) and send the ejecta into the sun light. The probe, who collided several minuets later to make its own crater, quickly looked at the spectra of the ejected material to see what it was made of. They were hoping for teaspoons of water in a football field sized area, but have found buckets of water.



Why is this important? Because water is heavy, and crucial to life and rocket propellent. Ideally, we want to send up people and a few machines to the moon, but need there to be raw materials there to live off. A base on the moon is useful because it would be an ideal jumping point to go to other planets.

Videos are on CNN and youtube. I'm excited. A dream for me would be to design habitats on the moon and mars for people to live in. Sustainable living in these environments would is a necessity and the idea of designing this type of habitat here on earth is what I've been thinking of for a while.