Heuvelmans Vindicated

With a headline like that, one could be forgiven for thinking that there had been a great cryptozoological breakthrough of some sort. However, not on this occasion. Amongst other things Heuvelmans was the scientific advisor to Georges "Herge" Remi, author of the Tintin books, and when Tintin landed on the moon seventeen years before Apollo 11. Herge took Heuvelkmans' advice and made a big plot feature about the moon having water.

In the intervening years it has been thought that this was a bad guess, but recently Heuvelmans has been vindicated..

The Moon might be much wetter than previously thought, say scientists. A US-led team analysed the mineral apatite in lunar rocks picked up by the Apollo space missions and in a lunar meteorite found in North Africa. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10313173.stm