Water on the Moon

Apollo is history, and the rock samples astronauts brought back from the Moon have been studied every way from Sunday, right? Well, Apollo is history, but advances in technology over the past thirty years have allowed scientists to study the samples in new ways. That has led to the firm discovery of lunar water.

A group of researchers has recently found water in tiny lava beads astronauts brought back. Until now, scientists have seen the Moon as completely and incredibly dry-- save, perhaps, for ice delivered by the impacts of comets. Water inside beads of lava that flowed from the lunar interior, however, indicates the Moon had (perhaps still has) indigenous water in its interior.

How much water is still open to question. Whether there's enough water to aid plans to establish lunar bases and settlements is unknown. Whether any water present would be accessible is unknown. But, because of Apollo and the continued advance of technology, exploing such possibilities now seems reasonable.