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JUNE 2013
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June 18, 5p. Meet the winners of the competition and watch them receive cash prizes and ribbons for categories such as Best of Show for Adult, Best...
June 20, 11a. From the most popular legend of the 1001 Arabian Nights, watch as Aladdin thwarts the evil sorcerer, discovers the magical lamp,...
June 21, 6p. A fun night featuring live local bands Wild Card and the Joey Vitale Trio followed by DJ Ultra. Magicians, fortune tellers and...
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Nevada's water problems -- SOLVED!
by Andrew Kiraly | posted May 26, 2011
Now all we have to do is build a long enough pipeline. Turns out there's a lot more watery goodness buried in the moon than we ever thought -- a lot more. From Science: The Moon has long been thought to be highly depleted in volatiles such as water, and indeed published direct measurements of water in lunar volcanic glasses have never exceeded 50 parts per million (ppm). Here, we report in situ measurements of water in lunar melt inclusions; these samples of primitive lunar magma, by virtue of being trapped within olivine crystals prior to volcanic eruption, did not experience post-eruptive degassing. The lunar melt inclusions contain 615 to 1410 ppm water, and high correlated amounts of fluorine (50 to 78 ppm), sulfur (612 to 877 ppm) and chlorine (1.5 to 3.0 ppm). These volatile contents are very similar to primitive terrestrial mid-ocean ridge basalts and indicate that some parts of the lunar interior contain as much water as Earth's upper mantle. Pat Mulroy is totally getting fitted for a spacesuit right now.
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