Moon Water

NASA had a big announcement about the moon today: more water! While scientists have known about lunar H2O for a while, the scope of abundance wasn’t fully established and some of the discovery locations have been very surprising.

Water and ice were previously known to exist deep inside the permanent shadows of some of the deeper craters near the poles, but scientists have now detected water on sunlit surfaces.

Equally intriguing about this discovery is the role that NASA’s flying observatory SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) played in collecting data from high-altitude flights with a telescope mounted in the back of a modified Boeing 747.

You can read more about the discovery and the flying observatory here:

Water on the moon is more common than we thought, studies reveal

Editor's note: You can follow NASA's announcement of water on the moon . For the first time ever, scientists have identified water on sunlit surface. They also found that water is more common on the moon than previously thought, with pockets of ice hiding in shadowy regions of "eternal darkness," some as small as a penny, new studies reveal.

You can find the position of the planets, constellations, and even satellites like the International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope by using the free program Stellarium:

www.stellarium-web.org

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