NASA confirms presence of water on moon

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Thursday confirmed the presence of water ice on the Earth's moon as well as its water cycle after nearly a year since the discovery of water molecules on the natural satellite.NASA has convincingly confirmed the presence of water ice and characterized its patchy distribution in permanently shadowed regions of the moon, said chief lunar scientist at NASA. Now new results from the Hollywood-esque moonshot reveal lots of water in a crater where the sun never shines, 41 gallons of ice and vapor. The two missions found evidence that the lunar soil within shadowy craters is rich in useful materials, and that the moon has a water cycle and is chemically active. Scientists discovered that water was present in the form of mostly pure ice crystals in some places. After the twin impacts, grains of mostly pure water ice were in the plume meaning that water ice was somehow delivered to the moon in the past or a chemical process caused ice to accumulate in large quantities. With this knowledge of the moon's water cycle and processes, future mission planners could better determine locations with easily-accessible water. The existence of mostly pure water ice could mean future human explorers won't have to retrieve the water out of the soil. In addition, an abundant presence of hydrogen gas, ammonia and methane could be exploited to produce fuel.