Friday, November 13, 2009
Buckets of the Stuff
woo hoooo!
...water for certain near the north pole of the Moon ... hints in the plume of other, more exotic molecules, ranging from organic hydrocarbons to mercury
...Because the Moon has nearly no tilt to the Sun, some of its craters, including parts of Cabeus, remain in permanent shadows that get as cold as Pluto. The cold and lack of light turn them into vaults for all that falls within their rims. “These cold traps — they’ve swept through the inner solar system over the past couple billion years and have accumulated everything that has migrated to them.” ...the ‘attics’ of the Solar System
I dunno what-all this will entail, but it pleasures me rather a bit in bleak, crappy times like these.
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