Water on the Moon

E-mail to Congress:

EIN News says, "India's Lunar Mission Finds Evidence of Water on the Moon. Dreams of establishing a manned Moon base could become reality within two decades after India's first lunar mission found evidence of large quantities of water on its surface. Data from Chandrayaan-1 also suggests that water is still being formed on the Moon. Scientists said the breakthrough — to be announced by Nasa at a press conference today — would change the face of lunar exploration. (timesonline.co.uk)".

Please don't be misled by this "pie-in-the-sky" report. The questions to ask are how much water is there? And, how available is it? It is obviously not available in the same manner as it is on earth; i.e. rivers, lakes, ponds, and oceans. Even if you have a lot of damp sand, how do you separate the water from the sand? It can theoretically be done, but that would take energy. What's the energy source? It might be the sun, but that energy is too widespread for practical use. We see that in our attempts to use solar energy here on earth, wherein we need acres and acres of solar panels, in order to harvest solar energy.

In essence, this is an interesting scientific observation which has no practical use at this time, but which should be filed for later reconsideration, depending upon other technological developments.

The idea that "water is still being formed on the Moon" seems like super pie-in-the-sky. It will be interesting to hear on what basis that claim has been made.