USRA Scientist Questions Why Lunar Water Didn't Make More of a Splash

In an op-ed in the November 19 New York Times, Universities Space Research Association (USRA) scientist William S. Marshall asks why the discovery of more water than expected at the Moon’s South Pole did not get more media coverage. Saying that a similar discovery 30 years ago would have been “heralded as one of humanity’s greatest discoveries,” he wonders if “it’s a symptom of our age, that the problems that bedevil us on Earth limit our interest in other worlds — just when we need them (and the inspiration they offer) most.”