Sentences with phrase «lunar water»

As useful as the new maps may be, they still leave plenty of unanswered questions about lunar water.

Still, the researchers say, the study provides a good starting point for thinking about how lunar water resources might be utilized.

Instead lunar water costing 100 per kg, it easily be $ 75 per kg and cost of electrical cost to make rocket fuel less $ 25 per kg of rocket fuel made.

Which also means we need 40 million kgs of lunar water mined per year [the moon could have billions of tons of minable water, btw - not a shortage in this regard].

The hydrogen isotopic composition of lunar water also varies from region to region, much more dramatically than in Earth.

«I was very vehement against lunar water,» he says.

«All these mechanisms seem to work, but we still didn't know which is the dominant source of lunar water,» says NASA scientist Alan Stern, who was not involved in the new work.

Lunar water could be used for drinking or its components — hydrogen and oxygen — could be used to manufacture important products on the surface that future visitors to the moon will need, like rocket fuel and breathable air.

Because there tends to be more deuterium further from the sun, each possible source of lunar water should give a different ratio.

The researchers suggest that the lunar water's scarcity and uneven distribution arose during the moon's formation from a hot mess of gas and molten rock 4.5 billion years ago.

According to the latest thinking, lunar water is derived from comets that struck the moon billions of years ago, when the solar system was young.

Researchers are now involved in several projects that trace the origins of lunar water, perhaps all the way back to the fateful moment billions of years ago when the moon was formed.

«We don't even know how water got to Earth, so understanding the origins of lunar water is very interesting.»