The MOON returns to the attention of the whole world thanks to an amazing and extremely important announcement that will have a very serious impact for all of humanity in the coming years, and NASA has revealed everything. More precisely, those from NASA talk about the importance of shadows on the moon, in the areas covered by them, ice accumulates that could be transformed in the future into water that the astronauts can use for the future lunar base.
The MOON was at the center of a very detailed analysis made by the Americans from NASA, they looked very carefully at the shaded areas on the Earth's natural satellite, especially in the craters. It is well known that there is ice in the craters on the moon because sunlight never penetrates them, but these are not the only areas on the Earth's natural satellite where ice has accumulated over time, it being very important for the future missions with astronauts.
MOON: The AMAZING Announcement, the Important Discovery for Humans
The MOON has had ice detected at its poles for some time, which scientists have been able to confirm without any problems, but there are many other areas on Earth's natural satellite that hide ice. These areas are also very far from the moon's poles, and the lack of an atmosphere to distribute the sun's heat on the surface of the cosmic object is another explanation for the existence of these ice areas that can be exploited.
"Over a decade ago, the spacecraft detected the possible presence of water on the Moon's daytime surface, and this was confirmed by NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) in 2020," said Björn Davidsson, a science at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Southern California. These observations were, at first, counterintuitive: water should not survive in that harsh environment. This challenges our understanding of the lunar surface and raises interesting questions about how volatiles such as water ice can survive on airless bodies. Frost is much more mobile than trapped water. Therefore, this model provides a new mechanism that explains how water moves between the lunar surface and the thin lunar atmosphere."
The MOON has areas where the shadow maintains temperatures of up to -210 degrees Celsius, in their immediate vicinity there are areas where temperatures reach 120 degrees Celsius due to the sun. These huge temperature differences are also found outside the craters that exist on the moon, and scientists study them carefully because it is amazing how areas of this kind can exist next to each other without the ice being melted in any way.
The MOON is targeted by many missions in the coming years, scientists trying to bring astronauts back to the moon and build lunar bases that need, among other things, water, which could be thawed there.
