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Hot Off the Press Sept. 2012

By Kim Merrill on August 31, 2012
Tour Guide - Meteor Crater

Tags: water

Categories: Meteor Crater General

Hi – Kim here. Got water? If not you might want to try stopping by the Moon. Our “Hot Off the Press” article this month is “Walls of Lunar Crater May Hold Patchy Ice, LRO Radar Finds” (The LRO is the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter). The LRO has found that a permanently shaded lunar crater may hold patchy ice -  as much as 5 to 10 percent by weight. The article goes on to say, “These findings support the long-recognized possibility that areas of permanent shadow inside polar impact craters are sites of the potential accumulation of water.” You can read the entire article at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/shackleton-ice.html