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NASA confirms the presence of water on the moon
It's official, folks: Brita can start selling lunar water filters. NASA confirmed the presence of lunar agua today with a cheeky: "The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water." Oh, NASA!
One month ago NASA's LCROSS spacecraft crashed onto the lunar surface, sending up a plume of moon dust to be analyzed. It's that plume that has yielded the amazing discovery. "We are ecstatic," LCROSS principal investigator Anthony Colaprete said. "Multiple lines of evidence show water was present in both the high angle vapor plume and the ejecta curtain created by the LCROSS Centaur impact. The concentration and distribution of water and other substances requires further analysis, but it is safe to say Cabeus holds water."
Translation: maybe not enough water to fill my lunar pool (shown here in the artist rendering above), but perhaps enough to prove useful to our future exploitation exploration of the moon.
By Jamion at 4:56 PM ON 11/13/09
Yea!!!! Time to start looking at constructing a moon base... then next on the colonize Ceres!!!
By VS Dude at 6:13 PM ON 11/13/09
Guess what?! There's water here on Earth too! And for some unknown reason, we have trouble getting it in drinking form to a whole slew of the population already here.
I say, let's clean our act up on Earth before we start trekking millions of miles to a desert planet in the hopes of finding water there.
By j-dub at 6:37 PM ON 11/13/09
I always find it interesting to find someone on a SciFi website that has problems with our maned exploration of our solar system and beyond.
By bukmacher at 7:35 PM ON 11/13/09
whats a post,exactly thats what im looking for,thanks,good job guys
By CosmicTrader at 7:49 PM ON 11/13/09
Hey, j-dub: *I* find it interesting that someone claiming intellectual and/or moral superiority can't spell "manned." It's the romantic in me. Unless you believe we should send lions out to explore the solar system? :)
VS Dude has a definite point - we are *not* providing clean drinking water or sufficient food, even to every American. And we probably *could*, given our technology and industrial base. That we aren't, is rather shameful. If there's intelligent life Out There, they're gonna be paying attention to this...unless they want to "serve man."
And I say this as one who has supported our space program for over 40 years, and who just ecstatically toured KSC day before yesterday. I have no problem with continued exploration, but we've also got to take care of the planet and people we've got here, or what's the frakkin' point?
By Mark Simpson at 7:51 PM ON 11/13/09
Interesting that NASA gets these results after Obama's commission says the Ares rocket should be scrapped, and the only thing that might keep their moon hopes alive is to find water.
Of course, I'd be less sceptical if just one telescope had picked up the ejecta cloud as independent verification. But even Hubble didn't.
By Seanbtwo at 8:35 PM ON 11/13/09
"I say, let's clean our act up on Earth before we start trekking millions of miles to a desert planet in the hopes of finding water there."
*VS Dude *,
I hate idiotic statements like that - next your going to talk about "polluting" space...LOL
By Pinkerton at 1:41 AM ON 11/14/09
STRANGE ANOMALY DISCOVERED ON MOON IN NASA PHOTO... Buzz Aldrin comments on the "Monolith" on Mars Moon Phobos... APOLLO 11 UFO... VIDEO: "I Saw Structures on the Moon":
http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2009/09/strange-anomaly-discovered-on-moon-in.html
By squidio at 9:08 AM ON 11/14/09
Let's hear it for VS Dsude!!! Save the planet! SCREW THE GREEDY, HEARTLESS PEOPLE AT NASA!!!!! Destroying two planets will wreck our karma.
By psn_djnoman4 at 1:33 AM ON 11/15/09
duh ya'll know moon had water. waste of few million dollar use government money just like McD's dollar menu.
By bhcgrrl at 9:05 AM ON 11/16/09
NASA should start thinking about bottling it. They'd make a killing!
By Mr. Gumsandals at 9:14 AM ON 11/16/09
bhcgrrl got it right. Call it Moon Water by NASA and sell it for a $100 per 8oz bottle. That should help them pay for their Ares rocket program.
By handle at 12:41 AM ON 11/18/09
there is no credit goes to NASA,,,,,credit goes to INDIAN scientist ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,!!!
By gatetraveler at 12:43 PM ON 12/10/09
People like "squidio & VS Dude" strongly believes that comment as theirs will change the world. What they don't realize is that it empower people like us to make them look stupid. It is because of people like them that we have come this far in space exploration. We love to prove them WRONG. People like us don't like to be told "we can't do this or that." Whatever happen to the imbeciles that said "You can go into space!" ? I would like to see their faces now... :-) "squidio & VS Dude" should be in sites that ARE CONCERN WITH EARTH issues. And not in sites like these. Please put your energy where it will be helpful and appreciated.
By gatetraveler at 12:48 PM ON 12/10/09
Correcting my last statement:
Whatever happen to the imbeciles that said "You can not go into space!" ? I would like to see their faces now... :-)
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