Parched on the moon? Just let the sun shine

• Autores: Rebecca Boyle
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3025, 2015, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A lunar "day" lasts a month, so the water molecules have a lot of time to accumulate. Tim Livengood of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt MD wondered how much drinkable water people could collect if they setup a solar-powered distillery to catch the morning frost. Using data taken between 2009 and 2011 by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Livengood calculates that the frost build-up at the terminator would be just under 0.2 millimeters thick--enough to yield about 190 milliliters of water per square meter per lunar day with a suitable set-up.