Moon Ice

Evidence of Water/Atmosphere on Moon
By Jim Marrs, Author of Alien Agenda and Crossfire

Until well into the 20th century, many scientists, as well as speculative authors, believed the Moon to be inhabited by intelligent creatures living on an arable, water-filled world. Yet, by mid-century, the tightly controlled corporate mass media and, hence, a woefully ignorant public, subscribed to a picture of our Moon as a dead and airless world. Selective reporting of the findings of the six Apollo Moon landings and sequestered information that might contradict the "official" position solidified this portrait. For example, we all know that the U.S. military has orbiting cameras powerful enough to read the license plate of a car stuck in traffic on the San Diego Freeway. Yet, nearly all the publicly available photos of the Moon are low-resolution shots. Where is our expensive and, hence, government-controlled, high-resolution technology when it comes to strange and enticing areas of the Moon and Mars? Virtually no high-resolution photos of the Moon have been released since 1948. Is this evidence of a coverup? But why? With all of the interest in the Moon early last century, why would NASA and high-level government officials want to deny the public this news? What if the Moon is more than the useless, desolate place, as described by sci-fi writers of the previous century? We’ll tackle the initial mind-boggling statements one at a time, as follows.

Water on the Moon was finally acknowledged in November 1996, when the Clementine mission revealed near-pure water ice at the Moon’s southern pole. The finding was confirmed on March 5, 1998, when NASA officials announced that the Lunar Prospector had discovered ice at both of the Moon’s poles. It was estimated the total volume of ice might top 6.6 billion tons. If we knew that water was there in 1996 and 1998, it is reasonable to think they knew this prior to the Apollo missions, as the Moon had been extensively photographed and monitored by the earlier Pioneer, Ranger, Surveyor, and Soviet Luna missions? The idea of some sort of atmosphere on the Moon has been accepted by many people, except official NASA spokesmen, for years. In the late 1950s, two imminent scientists, Morris K. Jessup and V.A. Firsoff, presented compelling evidence of a lunar atmosphere along with the probability of regional water and vegetation. It was well known before the beginning of the 20th century that stars did not suddenly vanish as Moon passed between them and the earth. Instead, they "occulted," or twinkled, indicating a thin, but present atmosphere. Furthermore, the lunar atmosphere provides enough friction for small meteors to burn, causing brief flashes visible on Earth. Mists, clouds, and other types of sprays have been viewed on the Moon ever since the telescope was invented. On March 7, 1971, instruments left behind by Apollo missions recorded a “wind” of water passing over the lunar surface. This water vapor cloud lasted 14 hours and covered an area of some 100 square miles. While lunar scientists thought this event proved the existence of water on the Moon, NASA officials were quick to speculate that the liquid came from a ruptured Apollo descent stage tank which contained less than 100 pounds of water. No one thought to ask how the water, no matter where it came from, spread across the Moon’s surface if there is no atmosphere and hence, no wind.

Author William L. Brian II noted that during Apollo 12, astronaut Alan Bean commented that an aluminum strip used in a solar wind test seemed to have wrapped itself around a pole, indicating wind. Mission Control quickly countered that it was a trick caused by thermal radiation. Brian also described film of Apollo 14 showing that as astronauts first planted the American flag, it began to billow as if from some breeze. The camera was quickly trained elsewhere and subsequent missions used a wire frame to keep their flags stiff and immobile. So, apparently there is water and an atmosphere on the Moon. But why keep it secret? Anyone over age 40 recalls that prior to Apollo 11, the media was full of stories about how the U.S. intended to extensively colonize the Moon. The purpose was to prevent the Soviets from gaining a space base, where they could mine for costly precious minerals and create a springboard for the exploration of Mars. But none of this happened. We were told that there was nothing on the Moon worth returning for -- no water, no atmosphere, nothing. And we stopped going, even though we still had more Apollo spacecraft already paid for and ready to launch.