When People first landed on the moon, scientists have been thinking that there was no water on the moon, they thought that it was bone dry. According to http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090923-moon-water-discovery.html, new observations from three different spacecraft have put this notion to rest with what has been called "unambiguous evidence" of water across the surface of the moon.
To find more traces of water on the moon, NASA is planing to lunch a rocket into one of the moon's craters. The impact of the rocket will be huge. It will shoot up hundreds of thousand of pounds of rock. The rocks that are being shot up will be tested for water traces by near by satellites according to http://www.newser.com/story/71209/nasa-to-smash-rocket-into-moon-tomorrow.html.
"If the water molecules are as mobile as we think they are — even a fraction of them — they provide a mechanism for getting water to those permanently shadowed craters," said planetary geologist Carl Pieters of Brown University in Rhode Island, who led one of the three studies in Science on the lunar find, in a statement. "This opens a whole new avenue, but we have to understand the physics of it to utilize it."
My opinion on the theory of water on the moon is that if there is water on the moon which there is then that would be very cool. This might mean that there may be life on the moon. Now that would be awesome. What would be even cooler would be if this gets us one step closer to being able to live on the moon. Just imagine that you are walking down the street one day and you look up and you see building on the moon.
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