[extropy-chat] Water Marks the Asthenosphere (2)

[Keith Henson]

At 07:19 PM 1/25/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/315/5810/297g
>
>Reading this, I'm wondering if a lot of water on other words might be
>integrated into the mantle or other strata... Perhaps Mars has lots of
>water, but it's all part of a mineral matrix deep below the surface.
>What about Luna?

Most of it is dry, really dry.

The origin of the moon is such that it was subjected to out gassing into a 
vacuum at high temperature.

The exception is that a bit of water might have accumulated in the cold 
traps at the lunar poles.

Followed this subject for decades.

Keith