Is There Oxygen on the Moon?


 

NASA reported this week, that the Hubble Space Telescope may have found minerals that can be converted to oxygen on the moon.

moon1020 Is There Oxygen on the Moon?

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It is the moon’s small mass and low gravity that prevents it from keeping hold of even a tenuously thin atmosphere. But oxygen needn’t exist only in gaseous form above the ground. It can also be entrained safely in certain kinds of rocks. Gather the rubble and either treat it with chemicals or blast it with heat, and you can free up unlimited quantities of oxygen both for breathing and for rocket fuel.


 

One Response to Is There Oxygen on the Moon?

  1. Duane Allen says:

    have you noticed buildings/structures and linked them with what exists on mars
    as seen in photo returns and compared them to what now exists on earth?????
    I thought other people were on a bad batch of asperins untill I started searching photos. and now its your turn to take a closer look at what is really in your photos. i use windows picture and fax and windows live to clean up dirty photos. shame on nasa for cover ups and spending big money on cheap cameras. I get better results from a 10 dollar video camera from walgreens.

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