<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e8c64806-20cf-4620-b426-7dbfecb01103/5EFBF774-6FDA-4ECF-840C-1FE55F3078AF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090928.html" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090928.html" style="font-size: 11px;">antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090928.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/img/5B17FC5E-F31F-402E-B58F-BC9ABFC4F82F" alt="See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090928.html">No lakes have been found, but rather NASA's <A href="http://m3.jpl.nasa.gov/">Moon Mineralogy Mapper</A> aboard India's new <A href="http://www.isro.org/chandrayaan/htmls/home.htm">Chandrayaan-1</A> <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs-04UvCcfQ">lunar orbiter</A> radios back that parts of the Moon's surface absorb a very specific color of light identified previously only with water.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090928.html"> Unfortunately, even the <A href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/moonmars/features/moon20090924.html">dampest scenarios</A> leave our moon dryer than the <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama_Desert">driest of Earth's deserts</A>. A fascinating clue being debated is whether the <A href="http://planetary.org/blog/article/00002118/">water signal rises and falls</A> during a single lunar day. If true, the <A href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/09/24/water-on-the-moon-yup-its-real/">signal might be</A> explainable by hydrogen flowing <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000318.html">out from the Sun</A> and interacting with <A href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1019_051019_moon_oxygen.html">oxygen in the lunar soil</A>. This could leave an extremely thin <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolayer">monolayer</A> of water, perhaps only a few molecules thick. Some of the resulting water might subsequently evaporate away in bright sunlight. <A href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/moonmars/features/clark3.html">Pictured above</A>, the area near a crater on the <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070225.html">far side of the Moon</A> shows a <A href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090924-moon-water-reaction.html">relatively high</A> abundance of water-carrying minerals in false-color blue.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5EFBF774-6FDA-4ECF-840C-1FE55F3078AF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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