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    Besides the earth, where else in the universe is it known that water currently exists?

    Question #107284. Asked by star_gazer. (Jul 21 09 7:00 PM)


    BRY2K

    		Here are some examples:

    Water vapor is thought to exist in clouds of dust and gas that feed the supermassive black hole at the center of an ancient quasar 11.1 billion years distant from Earth.

    A research group from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy used the 100 m Effelsberg radio telescope to detect the water at the greatest distance from Earth so far recorded. The water vapour was discovered in the quasar MG J0414+0534 at redshift 2.64.

    http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/12/water-vapor-is.html

    Ice on the Moon: Over the last couple of years, spacecraft orbiting the Moon have used radar to study its surface. The reflection of the radar signals from craters near
    he poles indicates that there may be a large amount of subsurface ice there.

    Comets: Comets are chunks of dust and frozen gases including water that are in highly oblong (elliptical or hyperbolic) orbits around the Sun.

    Also:

    Mars, Eurpoa an Interstellar Clouds.

    http://www.ozh2o.com/h2universe.html

    Jul 21 09, 7:30 PM
    garys1266

    		The moon and possibly Mars. Water is also in the form of ice on comets.

    Jul 21 09, 8:43 PM
    star_gazer

    		Jupiter's moon Europa.

    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080806210116.htm

    Jul 21 09, 9:33 PM

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