Never mind water, there's a face carved into the bottom of it.
NASA sniffs water ice on Moon – maybe
The unusually bright floor of an ancient crater at the Moon's south pole may be proof that over 20 per cent of it may be coated with water ice. Or not. "There may be multiple explanations for the observed brightness throughout the crater," said Maria Zuber, the lead investigator of the team who authored a paper published …
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Friday 22nd June 2012 09:31 GMT JDX
That doesn't really seem an answer, simply a slightly related fact. You don't say what temperature sublimation occurs at for instance.
On a related note... isn't 40K quite warm for a crater which never sees the sun? Has the sun, over the eons, heated the entire moon up to 40K? Or is there residual heat from the moon's core?
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