Water on the Moon can be a rocket fuel

The latest spectral data show that water exists no less on the surface of the Moon and it can be used to make rocket fuel and oxygen for future expeditions.

The article has just been published in Nature Geoscience that shocked many people when they found the spectral data found. And it is not rare, but widely distributed on the surface of the Moon!

The moon really has a lot of water and is a valuable resource for the upcoming expeditions - (photo: SPUTNIK).

The new study completely goes against previous theories about how water exists primarily in icy form in craters, near polar regions. The first signals have been recorded for many years before being presented to the public. Specifically, in 2009, for the first time, India's Chandrayaan -1 spectrophotometer and two other NASA devices found signs of water right above the moon's surface, reflecting sunlight.

Of course, the form of water is not the same as on the earth, so we cannot look at it like a lake or a river in our world. The researchers also said moon water can exist in a static and cyclical manner, regardless of the composition of the surface it exists on.

Dr. Michael Poston from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), one of the authors of the recently published paper, explains: "When dividing water molecules, you have oxygen and hydrogen, the components that make up Air to breathe and rocket fuel ".

Scientists are still determining whether moon water exists under any chemical formula: H ₂ O (water) or OH (hydroxyl), or a mixture of both, and where it comes from. OH - hydroxyl is a compound that can be used as fuel for rockets.