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Astronauts Could 'Harvest' Water On The Moon Saturday, September 26, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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Newly confirmed water on the moon could help sustain lunar astronauts and even propel missions to Mars, if harvesting it can be made practical. A microwave device being developed by NASA could do just that. Three spacecraft – India's Chandrayaan-1 and NASA's Cassini and Deep Impact probes – have detected the absorption of infrared light at a wavelength that indicates the presence of either water or hydroxyl, a molecule made up of a hydrogen and an oxygen atom. (source: newscientist.com)
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