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Moon is 'alive' with water, NASA says
Nov 14th, 2009 - Heraldtribune
There is water on the moon, scientists stated unequivocally on Friday. "Indeed yes, we found water," Anthony Colaprete, the principal investigator for NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, said in a news conference...
Significant amounts of water found on moon, NASA says
Nov 13th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times
Declaring "this is not your father's moon," NASA scientists said today that last month's mission to punch a hole in the lunar surface found significant amounts of water in a permanently shadowed crater at the moon's south pole.
Moon Ice: NASA LCROSS Discovered Large Lunar Ice Field (WATCH LIVE)
Nov 13th, 2009 - The Huffington Post
NASA announced that a "significant" amount of water has been found on the moon, following the LCROSS mission to "bomb" the moon earlier this year. The LCROSS rocket blasted a crater on the moon's south pole in October 2009...
NASA finds water found on the moon
Nov 13th, 2009 - The Raw Story
A "significant amount" of frozen water has been found on the moon, the US space agency NASA said Friday, boosting hopes of eventually setting up a permanent lunar base.
Moon landing kicked up debris, after all
Oct 18th, 2009 - UPI
SILICON VALLEY, Calif., Oct. 18 (UPI) -- The spacecraft that plowed into the moon last week kicked up a cloud of dust after all, as NASA had hoped, officials said. Early indications had suggested the Centaur rocket failed to stir up the dust...

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Big moon boom! US bombs lunar surface
NASA has smashed a space probe and its booster rocket into the lunar surface. The impact has kicked up hundreds of tons of lunar dirt, which the scientists are now hoping to analyze.
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NASA Finds Moon Life. Fossils From the Lunar Surface. Origins of Life part 4
Cosmology.com Fossils and Life found on the Moon. A documentary film by Rhawn Joseph, Ph.D. http In 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan L. Bean retrived a TV camera from the unmanned ...
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MOON ALIEN SECRET: Strange Creatures on Lunar Surface
Creatures by Jaxa-Kaguya. Analysis based on researches of Dave Beamer and Matteo Agosti - By Karl Heimann ©ZABLAFTER STUDIO
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Neil Armstrong steps on moon 1969
Close up video footage of Neil Armstrong stepping on the Moon 1969. ... apollo 11 Neil Armstrong 1969 NASA moon

Lunar Surface from WikiPedia:

The lunar surface (or the surface of the moon) differs greatly from that of Earth. Different topography exists and soil composition and properties differ. Environmental factors affect the lunar surface. These include the myriad meteorite impacts the surface is subjected to each year and the extreme temperature differentials it is exposed to (as the Moon revolved about its own axis, roughly once every 27 days). Others consist of the continuous bombardment of charged solar wind particles (due to the absence of a significant magnetic field), the absence of a relevant atmospheric pressure, and a weaker gravitational force.[citation needed]

Some may say that the moon looks like Mercury, which is also heavily cratered.[citation needed]