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To: JakeStraw who wrote (939)	9/4/1998 8:11:00 AM
From: Bill Hardison	Respond to of 1035

Thanks for the info. Some of these sites look promising.

To: JakeStraw who wrote (939)	9/4/1998 9:09:00 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1035

OK, Mr. Me who's been pissing on the moon? THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington - As much as 10 billion tons of water may be frozen near the moon's poles, according to data from a lunar spacecraft - water enough to build a moon village or to fuel rocket ships cruising even deeper into space. "There is an abundance of hydrogen at both lunar poles and we interpret that to mean there is water there," said Alan Binder, chief scientist for the Lunar Prospector spacecraft now orbiting the moon. "There is at least one billion tons of water, but there could be as much as 10 billion tons." That would be 10 times the amount previously estimated, he said. "We knew from the Apollo missions that we could go to the moon and build a base there, but we would have to take our water and fuel with us," Binder said. The deposits of water or hydrogen, he said, are "an enabling resource. You could build a colony without it, but this really makes it a lot simpler." In addition to sustaining life in such a colony, water also can be used for rocket fuel by breaking it into its constituent chemicals - hydrogen and oxygen. Propellant for the space shuttle's main engines, for instance, is hydrogen and oxygen. Paul Spudis, a researcher at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, called the discovery significant: "We've debated for 30 years whether or not there is ice on the moon and now this shows there is." Spudis was on the science team of an earlier lunar mission - the Clementine spacecraft - that found radar indications of water on the lunar south pole. Now, he said, the presence of lunar water has been confirmed by two different research methods. "This makes colonizing the moon a lot more attractive," said Ed Weiler, a space scientist at NASA. "I think before we colonize to Mars we need to colonize the moon for practice, so from that perspective, this is a major discovery." Copyright 1998, Newsday Inc. Water at Moon's Poles, Scientists Conclude., 09-04-1998, pp A28.