10-26-2020, 07:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-26-2020, 10:34 PM by HereOnThePrimalEdge.)
Water on the moon.
One small step for former UH graduate student Casey Honniball, one giant leap for lunar astronauts of the future:
“Prior to the SOFIA observations, we knew there was some kind of hydration,” Casey Honniball, the lead author who published the results from her graduate thesis work at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa in Honolulu, said in the announcement. “But we didn’t know how much, if any, was actually water molecules...
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/52...ce-of-moon
“This discovery reveals that water might be distributed across the lunar surface and not limited to the cold shadowed places near the lunar poles,” Paul Hertz, the director of NASA’s astrophysics division, said during a news conference on Monday.
Such ice might not only provide water for future astronauts to drink, but water molecules can also be broken apart into their constituent hydrogen and oxygen atoms. The oxygen would give the astronauts something to breathe. Hydrogen and oxygen can also be used as rocket propellant for trips home to Earth or even some day to Mars and beyond.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/scien...tion=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage
Casey Honniball rockin’ (pohaku-in’?) her Mauna Kea cap, outside the SOFIA research plane:
https://twitter.com/nasamoon/status/1320723634797699073
One small step for former UH graduate student Casey Honniball, one giant leap for lunar astronauts of the future:
“Prior to the SOFIA observations, we knew there was some kind of hydration,” Casey Honniball, the lead author who published the results from her graduate thesis work at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa in Honolulu, said in the announcement. “But we didn’t know how much, if any, was actually water molecules...
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/52...ce-of-moon
“This discovery reveals that water might be distributed across the lunar surface and not limited to the cold shadowed places near the lunar poles,” Paul Hertz, the director of NASA’s astrophysics division, said during a news conference on Monday.
Such ice might not only provide water for future astronauts to drink, but water molecules can also be broken apart into their constituent hydrogen and oxygen atoms. The oxygen would give the astronauts something to breathe. Hydrogen and oxygen can also be used as rocket propellant for trips home to Earth or even some day to Mars and beyond.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/scien...tion=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage
Casey Honniball rockin’ (pohaku-in’?) her Mauna Kea cap, outside the SOFIA research plane:
https://twitter.com/nasamoon/status/1320723634797699073