What will happen to the water?

Question

An astronaut fprgot one bucket of water on moon & returned to earth.
After ten years he again visited the moon.What will he find there in place of water in the bucket?

read fprgot as forgot.

Answer 1

"The Moon also has gravitational force.There is no gravity only in space."So,the bucket will surely remain there but the water will have evaporated as it is of small quantity(only 1 bucket) since it is 10 years since the bucket was kept.The evaporated water will have fallen as rain.They will have become ice after the rain as the single bucket of water would be distributed during the rainfall the process of evaporation may take place again.

NOTE-The astronaut should have taken the water to the moon by closing it with a lid tightly or the water would be floating in the spaceship due to zero gravity."While he kept the bucket of water on the moon, he should have opened the lid otherwise the process of evaporation will not take place and it would freeze and become ice."

Answer 2

1. The moon gets very cold at night - the water would freeze. But it gets very hot during the day, so the water would boil and turn to steam.

Because there is no atmosphere on the moon, any exposed water will immediately start to evaporate. It will form a cloud of water vapour around the bucket. During the course of one moon day (sunrise to sunset), the entire bucket will evaporate and there will be a cloud in the area.

When night falls on the moon as it does every 28 earth days, the cloud will freeze, and fall to the ground. Each day the cloud will evaporate again and each night fall to the ground, getting more spread out as it does so.

When the astronaut returns 10 years later, there will be no trace of the water, just an empty bucket.

Answer 3

a small bit of ice at the bottom of the bucket.

any heat that the water originally had will cause it to boil in a vacuum until all the heat is gone ... at which point it wil freeze into a solid. Your astronaut would not have seen a bucket of water on the moon, since this boiling would have occurred real fast and been quite vigorous ... but that is what will happen.

And if the ice is left there long enough and is subject to enough energy it will sublimate, ie. eventually it will absorb small bits of energy or heat and go from solid to gas directly eventually disappearing into water vapor. I'm assuming the bucket was
left in a shadowed spot.

Answer 4

i'm not an expert so i can basically tell what i think of. In area there is relatively chilly (-ninety°C or so). So it purely freezes. no count if it is in a spaceship it would not bypass, on account that there is not any gravitation there. It purely flies... gathers into bubbles...and it it user-friendly to chop up small bubble-communities and then assemble them at the same time back. it is genuine that the vapor factor of water may well be diverse in area yet as I actual have mentioned i'm not an expert so i don't understand how this impacts the freezing.

Answer 5

Ice on night one, since the "Mean Surface Temperature at Night" is -153C. The "Mean Surface Temperature by Day" is +107C, and water boils at +100C, so the water would evaporate the next day. Since a lunar day is 29.5 days there may be ice for a few days depending upon when the astronaut left the bucket.

After 10 years, the bucket is empty.

[Gnomon had this correct first -- see below].

Answer 6

the bucket will be empty.
the reason is evaporation of water, even if the light of sun will not fall on the bucket. the reason is that the very rare atmosphere of moon.
soon the water vapour will also escape the atmosphere of moon due to low value of escape velocity.
( even if the escape velocity is high, the water will disappear. the reason for this is that the disintegration of water molecule into H and OH radicals due to UV radiation( moon don't have ozone layer). and the radicals can escape easily.)

Answer 7

Unless 'anyone' (including natural calamities) disturbs the bucket,
its gonna be exactly as the astronaut had left it, 'coz there is no atmosphere of the moon, because of its tiny gravity, to cause boiling of the water (boiling occurs when vapour pressure of a liquid becomes equal to the atmospheric pressure acting on it) and hence the water can't escape anywhere.

Answer 8

Water?

Answer 9

Nothing. The Moon's atmosphere isn't - it is effectively a vacuum. Any liquid left on the Moon will evaporate.

Answer 10

Gnomon is correct.