This could be big.
New Source of Water on the Moon Estimated to Hold 270 Trillion Kilograms of Water
Scientists have found a new source of water on the moon: trapped in tiny glass beads formed millions of years ago when asteroids and other impactors hit the lunar surface.
In a study published in the Nature Geoscience journal on Monday, researchers estimated that the glass beads—pellets the width of strands of hair that are ubiquitous on the surface of the moon—collectively may hold up to 270 trillion kilograms of water. Enough to fill 100 million Olympic-sized swimming pools, this reservoir of water can potentially supply astronauts in future space exploration.
While the presence of water on the moon has been known for decades and confirmed through many studies, scientists were baffled by how water appears and disappears over the lunar day on the moon, which suggested there was a reservoir of water that had yet to be identified in the lunar soil.
This latest finding provides an answer. While the beads are tiny in size, ranging from a few tens of micrometers to a few millimeters, they have a water content of up to 0.2 percent of its weight.
Analyzing their hydration profile, researchers traced the origin of the water to the solar wind, a continual stream of protons and electrons that flows outward from the corona, the sun’s outermost layer of atmosphere, through the solar system. The solar-wind hydrogen reacts with oxygen present at the surface of the lunar glass beads, producing water that diffuses into the orbs, Hu said.
These beads also release their entrapped water into space, which explains the water cycle on the lunar surface, Hu said.
Since you were wondering, a Mineola Tangelo makes a good 10:30 snack.
I am working the Treesearch Farm plant sale again this year. Once again, it is an online sale followed by in-person pickup at the nursery. I’m no longer any use for the actual moving of the plants to the pickup area, so I have a relatively sedate (and seated) job of pulling the customer’s bill of sale out of the… Read more »
My rambling car stories (among all my other rambling stories…) probably didn’t stress that this was David’s Corolla that was in the shop for diagnosis. In the meantime, on the fairly rare times when I drive anywhere these days, I would take my Corolla. I just mix and match to keep them both in light usage.
Lefty neighbor is all a twitter Fox News got busted for something. He didn’t say what.
Oh, I see what you mean! Tidwell is a mean street indeed!
8 blocks through the mean streets of Houston!
#35 Shannon
I hope you don’t have to walk back down there to get the car.
Eh? The auto shop I’ve used for 28 years is 8 blocks from Chez Harp.
Must be Alabama guacamole.
Don’t see anything in it.
First of all there is good news that mharper42 has rescued her car at last and there was no major work to be done but it apparently took lots of hunting for what the problem was. I so appreciate the quality news items that appear in Hambone. Grateful for the many things one does not see in the lame stream… Read more »
I had to make a grocery store run late today and they had some just ripe avocados so I grabbed three and made a batch of guacamole. That being the case I went ahead and made a big batch of nachos and that was supper. Simple but real good eating, wife loves it. Oh and the avocados were a buck… Read more »
I just dropped the repaired rosary to a young man at church. Not the rosary owner, but he’ll pass it on for me. We have some handsome, Godly young men in our church. This young man has striking features: sharp cheekbones, pale but perfect complexion, blonde curly hair. I’ve never seen him not in a suit, including tonight. Always perfectly… Read more »
Mr. Fariss put me on baritone sax one concert season. One. ONE. Season. I had to push so much air through that huge space that it was almost impossible for me to play softly. He put me in front of the kettle drums to try to drown me out. Worked only a little bit. I have lungs, and I know… Read more »
I hope you don’t have to walk back down there to get the car.
Do you have an AR you can carry?
Well, I got the 2013 Carolla back from the shop today. They had it for a week, looking into a weird error that popped up that day I was trying to locate a building in the San Felipe area off the West Loop. I didn’t want to go back home on The Loop, and ended up lost for a while… Read more »
I always wanted to play the bassoon. Not exactly a marching band instrument.
But, oh, those hot cello chicks.
Dang, I didn’t think this work day would ever come to an end.
I noticed in our April Church Calendar that the annual church Spring Jr. High Dance is coming up. Last year they had three hundred kids show up!!!! All Jr. High students from BISD are invited, regardless of church affiliation.
I don’t know how many kids attend Bellville Jr. High, but three hundred has to be a substantial portion of them.
Or unibrow.
No Cro-Magnon here.
Unikidney – better than a Uniparty.
TT@ 4:49 – RE: the 1/4 inch of rust on my guitar fingers…..
“RUST NEVER Sleeps!”
I just attempted to play my saxophone. Let’s just say the lips gave out before the abs got their workout. A saxophone embouchure (how we form our mouths to/around the mouthpiece) is a double-lipped, fairly tight seal. (Beginning sax players are allowed to cheat and use top lip only, touching bottom teeth against the reed – but we are encouraged… Read more »
And somehow she survives sans the required afternoon beer. Weird.
MsTT @ 2:48 – YES I saw that one – which led me to follow OMG on Rumble also
^5
Tedtam
You’re just one of the rare, lucky ones who doesn’t die without an 11pm snack.
Good mostly cloudy day, Hamsters Yesterday was a celebration of turning in the tax info to the accountants and finally getting to see the priceless King Tut exhibit at the Museum of Natural Science in Houston. This exhibit contains a most impressive history of ancient Egyptian civilization, and the King Tut collection until recently had never left Egypt until arrangements… Read more »
#24 Katfish I caught him on Rumble (subscribed to his channel there). The first dude he talked to is INSANE. The conversation went something like this (O-O’Keefe, CD-Crazy Dude): O knocks on door, CD answers. O: “Are you aware that someone is using your name to generate false donations to ActBlue?” CD: “KILL TRUMP!” O: “But are you aware that… Read more »
Trying to fight the urge to snack. Will I die? No, no I won’t. I tested my ketones and blood sugar, and am pleasantly surprised that my ketone level is 1.4. I have been struggling to get over 1.0 for the last few days. So, I’m burning fat now. In addition to not dying, I have more motivation to stick… Read more »
James O’Keefe is rolling w his newly formed OMG outfit!
https://youtu.be/RnKCPK_OACc
20 Shannon I discovered about 5 years ago that I have undivided kidneys. My doctor called it a uni-kidney* which happens in fetal development in which the kidneys never fully separate into two lobes. He said it was nothing to worry about, but I would never be able to donate a kidney. My kidney numbers have always been very good.… Read more »
Lemme see ifn I got this straight (pun intended) 1) The Lunatic Left (LL)wants to ban guns in the USA 2) The LL has been far from the 3 Rs in elementary school and is instead teaching hate whitey, biological sex (gender describes nouns in Romance languages) is fluid and changeable in humans. 3) Christians are intolerant, yet if one… Read more »
After over a hundred incidents in America against property and people who are pro-life, the feds finally arrest somebody. It took them 10 months do it. A Wisconsin man was charged Tuesday for allegedly setting fire to the Wisconsin Family Action office in May right after the leak of the U.S. Supreme Court abortion ruling Dobbs v. Jackson. Reuters reports federal authorities… Read more »
16 The circumflex cardiac arterial system sorta runs horizontally and wraps around towards the back of the heart, providing blood to parts of that area. He noted in the Report that my circumflex system is “left dominant”. In my research I discovered that less than 1 in 5 people are left dominant in the circumflex. He laughed, said I must… Read more »
#16 Shannon
Glad to hear you got a good report from the doc! It sounds like you worked hard and gave up some things in order to see the improvement. Keep it up!
Here is the headline of the month. If you tell mentally ill kids that people disagreeing with them is “genocide,” eventually they’ll pick up weapons… If you’ve been paying attention lately, you’ll have noticed the subtle transformation from so-called “victims” to “terrorists” that’s taken place within the trans community. We’re starting to see a lot of very agressive and violent… Read more »
16 Shannon
Excellent.
Stay on top of those blockages and do preventative surgery when and if you need it instead of waiting for a heart attack.
Just finished refurbishing 2 1/2 totes. One had 3 plants on one side, so I just did the back side with new stuff. When those 3 front plants are done, I’ll repeat the process. Refurbishing existing totes takes more work than setting up new ones because I have to dig them out and restuff them. It’s a gradual process, but… Read more »
Good news Shannon. Makes me happy.
Today I had a conference by phone with my cardiologist. It was supposed to be a videoconference, but once again his staff dropped the ball on giving proper technical instructions in accomplishing the connection. (Which they also did two weeks ago when this appointment was originally scheduled.) This was my first contact with him since the heart catheterization angiography which… Read more »
90+% of our pharmaceutical supply comes from China. What have we learned about supply chain issues since the beginning of the WLR? The slags that inhabit our political leadership have apparently learned nothing; or they have and they want us to be beholden to the G-Dless Chinese for medicine. It is way beyond the point of simply calling it incompetence… Read more »
Stasi raid in New Jersey. Representative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Daniel Werfel demanding an explanation as to why the agency deployed federal agents to visit “Twitter Files” journalist Matt Taibbi. Jordan, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent the notice on Monday requesting more information… Read more »
The postcard took Morse completely by surprise. He wasn’t aware that the town had a zoning commission. Indeed, Caroline had no zoning code to speak of. That makes it an extreme outlier in the United States. Almost every other community in the country has a zoning code that assigns each property in town to a zoning district and then lays… Read more »
Morning, gang. Thanks for the visual aids on the unusual planet lineup last night, Dave.
Reason.com takes a look at the WSJ/NORC poll which has been cherry-picked in media for its more negative aspects. (NORC is the National Opinion Research Center) But have American values really shifted all that much? While the percentage of poll respondents naming various values as very important has declined, the vast majority still said that things like hard work, patriotism,… Read more »
Via Instapundit: Details of the FBI’s contract were revealed via a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Motherboard. The 4-page document is heavily redacted and doesn’t given much away about the broader purpose of the bureau’s data acquisition. However, it does show that, in 2017, the government paid a total of $76,450 for the information haul. Just what the bureau’s… Read more »
About the planet moon alignment, here’s is a good picture of it.
“Return to Tradition” is reporting the way Francis will redesign the American Catholic episcopate – he will be making at least 64 new appointments in America due to resignations or deaths. I pray for my Church. The only good news I’ve heard lately is that the up and coming seminarians are more faithful to the original teachings and traditions of… Read more »
7 GJT A regular kid for almost all of history worked with parents and grandparents at basic survival from the time they were small. Days started before dawn and ended at sundown for thousands of years until the dawn of the Industrial Age 150 years ago. Life was about 80% consumed by the drudgery of producing enough food and fire… Read more »
Next up is the Australian story on the “natural control group” for the jab. Western Australia shut down before WLR arrived and achieved near total jab rates. After discussing Australian geography and why Perth is such an isolated control group, Childers begins discussion of the news story and the numbers: The story’s news is that the province just released its… Read more »
Last week, former Blackrock exec Ed Dowd crunched the numbers, using the CDC’s own estimates of skyrocketing excess injuries and deaths, to determine that the post-pandemic, above-normal working-age injuries, disabilities, and deaths have cost the U.S. economy about $150 billion so far. [insert chart] Dowd quite rationally attributed the excess injuries and deaths — and their economic cost — to… Read more »
Well, took a half pill to go along with the coffee this morning, because I want to get going earlier than yesterday. Also did a few stretches before leaving the bed. I have seedlings that need permanent homes, and that means at least 2-3 new or refurbished tubs today. But first… WISHY WASHY ☙ Wednesday, March 29, 2023 ☙ C&C… Read more »