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Anonymous No. 16424933

Why are there no ice caps on the Moon? Was it always so dry?

Anonymous No. 16429011

>>16424933
An atmosphere would be needed to prevent ice caps from melting / sublimating. Light entering the atmosphere near Earth's poles has a lot more atmosphere to travel trough than light shining on the equator, thus dissipating heat.

Anonymous No. 16429020

Low gravity, so no atmosphere, and it's inside the ice-line of the solar system, so any ice there sublimated over time.

Anonymous No. 16429021

>>16429011
Plus, the moon is hollow. Water would leak through the panel seals and eventually make it to the center.

Anonymous No. 16430096

>>16424933
Water ice exists in permanently shadowed craters at the poles. Asteroid/cometary infall delivered the materials. Clementine mission and Lunar Prospector gamma-ray spectrography show its there.

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Anonymous No. 16430131

>>16424933
Watch Tortilla Hawkman's "A Brief History of the Tortilla" when he says, "a good tortilla will look like the Moon".