Water Found on the Moon

Have you ever thought water on the moon was possible? That a place that has shown no form of earth like features could possibly, actually have some. It is an exciting new discovery that researchers from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite say that there has been water found on the moon! Not only did they find water but they found at least 26 gallons of it. A satellite known as Lcross crashed into a crater on the moon which dug a huge hole into it. Researchers and scientists have been trying to find water on the moon for decades and so they staged a plan to find some. The plan was to crash a rocket into the moon and hit a crater that is 60 miles wide and 2 miles long (the actual hole that was dug was 60 to 100 feet wide) and then use a smaller machine to measure what was kicked up in the process. The satellite that found the 26 gallons of water was traveling at 5,600 miles per hour! However when scientists and science crazy folks watched to see the impact in October they sadly saw nothing. Even though debris wasn't seen or picked up by photographs they did see through analysis some slim shifts in color which shows signs of water on the moon. Water molecules were shown on the analysis which absorbed certain wavelengths of light. Besides water molecules showing up on the data there were also signs of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and methane molecules. Below the crater that was hit it is a minus 365 degrees which means anything that is in that crater at the bottom, will stay there. Scientist didn't always believe that the moon had water on it, before that they thought it was a dry area. However evidence showed that there was ice in the craters which led to the finding that, maybe there is water on the moon. Now after an extraordinary experiment we have finally discovered that water does exist on the moon. Who would have thought that we would be alive for this great discovery? Who knows what can happen now on the moon. [Science is] not belief, but the will to find out.-Anonymous