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The surface of the moon seems dull and dry, but that’s not true. links of london – Are They Still Widespread? The water was hided in the soil we can't see. Hot Sales for This Week: ugg boots and Accessories Three space detectors discovered chemical features of water on the surface of moon which surprised the American scientists a lot. At the beginning, they even didn't believe in the outstanding find, after repeated and respective discussion, they finally proved this conclusion.Really?! Jenny Humphrey Wear ed hardy jeans in Gathering!

The scientists said that the water in the soil was not enough for nourishing life. However, after treated by special process, maybe the water can supply as resources for the future residence on the moon, such as drinking water and fuel for rocket. There is not much water on the surface of the Moon. According to the research team member, University of Maryland astronomer Jessica Sunshine introduction, if you filled a two-liter soda bottle with the Moon soil, there may be only a drop water in those soil.

Carle Pieters, a scientist from brown university who lead the research, said that another way to know the shortage of water in moon is that, if you can get a cup of water from the earth, then you could find a diamond with the size of a baseball in it. Sang Saini said, "It stuck in the soil of lunar surface, we always put the moon as a place which is no vitality, it was somewhat like the dynamic processes which are taking place."

Research results was published in the latest issue of "Science" magazine, the U.S. space agency's press briefing also made a note of the study. This discovery could allow NASA to re-focus attention onto the moon. 40 years after the successful landing on the moon, the moon's attraction diminished, it remains yet be the "Magnificent Desolation",According to plan, two weeks later, a NASA probe will impact the lunar south pole to see whether some ice hidden below.

In the past ten years, astronomers found signs of underground ice in the two poles of moon. Nevertheless, the latest discovery is quite different from the former one. Water discovered this time is adsorbed to the soil on the surface of the moon instead of in it and the water is everywhere which is beyond the expectation of everyone. Sang Saini said, "The moon is much more dry than any desert we've been to." Water on the moon is found by space vehicles rotating around the Moon's orbit or flying from on its above.

The 3 detectors all use the same type of equipment doing researches on the absorption of a specific wavelength. This wavelength is only two kinds of chemical signal molecules: water and hydroxyl. The hydroxyl consisted of hydrogen and oxygen atom, but water contained two hydrogen atoms. Because of the timing during the daylight when some of the wavelength disappears and some doesn't, it shows that both hydroxyl and water are present, Sunshine said.

Pieters said that the probability of the same problem occurred in all these three instruments is almost zero, not to mention that they were installed in three different detectors, so it proved that water and hydroxyl really exist in the surface of lunar. Pieters said, "There is no doubt, the Moon contains the water and hydroxyl, this is very clear." Pieters explained that scientists once tested the samples of lunar soil which brought by astronauts to Earth, and they really found the trace of water, but they thought it was the pollution of earth's air at that time.

Three scientists who didn't participate in the research said the conclusion is significant. Ron Grini from Arizona state university even cited Pieters' words, praising the result "very clear". Paul Spudis, the U.S. senior scientist at the Moon and Planetary Institute, said, the new result was surprising, but at same time, offered a logical problem that where the water on the Moon came from?

Peeters think there are three possibilities: First, from a comet or asteroid hit the Moon, the second is the impact event release the water which trapped below the moon's surface; third, the solar wind carrying the hydrogen atom, the hydrogen atom combine the oxygen atoms of lunar soil to form water. Sunshine and Pieters both preferred the last possibility. Sunshine said, "If it is really solar winds, it means that there is little amount of water in those places where there is no atmosphere in the solar system, for example, Mercury and other small planets."