NASA Confirms That There Is Actually Water on the Moon

Of course, we’re not talking about a big lake or stream here.

In reality, the data shows the equivalent of a 12-ounce-bottle of water trapped in the soil.

Now we know it is there.

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We mainly think the water is in glass,sharedHonniball.

There is also another theory that there are regions of permanent shadow in polar craters.

No matter how the water got there, the fact that it exists opens up exciting possibilities for NASA.

This illustration highlights the Moon’s Clavius Crater with an illustration depicting water trapped in the lunar soil there, along with an image of NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) that found sunlit lunar water. (Photo: NASA/Daniel Rutter)

Interestingly, SOFIA’s first discovery was somewhat of a fluke.

The team was experimenting to see if the telescope was even capable of tracking the Moon.

Now that this first observation yielded so much intel, astronomers are eager to get started again.