Space: Water on the Moon was more than scientists thought

Under a thin layer of lunar soil, there are deposits of rock containing water. Water is at all latitudes, and, what pleased scientists, day and night. However, it is not so easy to collect a bucket of lunar water.

Shallow under the surface of the Moon are huge deposits of water. About this scientists from the University of Brown knew last year, and now researchers from the Institute for Space Research in Boulder, Colorado, have shown that water under a layer of regolith on almost the entire natural satellite, at all latitudes, regardless of the type of surface.

Earlier, the Indian probe "Chandrayaan-1" led scientists to assume that the water under the lunar soil is subject, so it occurs only at night, and is present only at the poles of the moon.

The new data give hope that the supply of water to future lunar bases may be less of a problem than was thought. The situation, however, is complicated by the fact that the source of water on the Moon was previously unknown; scientists can not estimate the total amount of water, nor how quickly it can end with heavy use. In addition, the data of the spray analysis indicate that obtaining water can be difficult: most of the time it exists not in the form of a compound with the formula H2O, but in a bound form.