Will NASA's discovery of water the moon mean we'll be able to ski on the moon? Well Scientist's announced on Friday that it turns out there is plenty of water on the moon, at least near the lunar south pole. And, where there's water, there could be snow. It has now been discovered that, when NASA crashed it's spacecraft (deliberately) into the moon last month, the debris kicked up contained 25 gallons of water....
But, before you go pack your moonboots and book onto the next Virgin Galactic flight, you might like to take note that, as it takes about 3.2 gallons to make one cubic foot of snow, that little lot would give us a piste one foot deep, one foot wide and just under 8 feet long. Not exactly 'best conditions on the lunar slopes'.
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