Moon~LCROSS Impact Breaks Moon Crust, Moon Water Now Escaping into Outer Space?
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Article => http://tinyurl.com/MoonWaterDiscovery2009
It's official: There's water on the moon.
NASA's LCROSS probe discovered beds of water ice at the lunar south pole when it impacted the moon last month, mission scientists announced today.
"Indeed, yes, we found water. And we didn't find just a little bit, we found a significant amount," Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator from NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.
The LCROSS probe impacted the lunar south pole at a crater called Cabeus on Oct. 9. The $79 million spacecraft, preceded by its Centaur rocket stage, hit the lunar surface in an effort to create a debris plume that could be analyzed by scientists for signs of water ice.
They found it, but did they also destroy it? Well, the European Space Agency ESA
has just brokered an agreement with the U.S. NASA to do the same thing to MARS
"DAMN THE TORPEDOES" [[ AND MOON || AND MARS ]] => http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47712
SlashDot Discussion board => http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/1415240/NASA-European-Space-Agency-Wa...
It's official: There's water on the moon.
NASA's LCROSS probe discovered beds of water ice at the lunar south pole when it impacted the moon last month, mission scientists announced today.
"Indeed, yes, we found water. And we didn't find just a little bit, we found a significant amount," Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator from NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.
The LCROSS probe impacted the lunar south pole at a crater called Cabeus on Oct. 9. The $79 million spacecraft, preceded by its Centaur rocket stage, hit the lunar surface in an effort to create a debris plume that could be analyzed by scientists for signs of water ice.
They found it, but did they also destroy it? Well, the European Space Agency ESA
has just brokered an agreement with the U.S. NASA to do the same thing to MARS
"DAMN THE TORPEDOES" [[ AND MOON || AND MARS ]] => http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47712
SlashDot Discussion board => http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/1415240/NASA-European-Space-Agency-Wa...
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Gravity_Man
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While everybody is playing Moon Maid and Little Orphan Annie ~with all the money their hands can grab at~ I hope everybody else (us) has noticed two near Earth collisions happened on two Fridays in the last 3 weeks, four today. October 16 a meteor whizzed across Earth's brow at 11:44 PM Friday evening and again on November 6. The first one was traveling 18,263 mph at 216,000 miles above the planet while the 2nd albeit smaller one was just 14,000 kilometers above earth's surface (where we are).
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