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FD · 11-13-2009, 02:42 PM

Holy crap!

NASA discovers 'significant' amount of water on moon
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Water on the moon, once a wild conjecture, appears to have become an established fact. Jubilant NASA scientists announced Friday that they had found the tell-tale signs of significant quantities of water, in the form of ice and vapor, lurking in a shadowed crater at the moon's south poll.

The discovery came from the double-whammy impact of a rocket and a trailing spacecraft slamming into the Cabeus crater four minutes apart on Oct. 9 and kicking up a plume of material. Instruments aboard the trailing spacecraft, and on another orbiting lunar probe, analyzed the ejected material and saw clear signatures of the equivalent of about 26 gallons worth of water, primarily in the form of vapor.

How much water there may be across the rest of the moon is unclear. But the pole turned out to be a jackpot.

"Can you believe it? Isn't this cool?" said Peter Schultz, a Brown University planetary scientist and team member for a mission called LCROSS, for Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite.

"After the Apollo program ended, we concluded that the moon was dead," Schultz said. "Now what we're seeing is a place with a reservoir of ices that have been collected over billions of years."

"One way of saying it is, this is not your father's moon," said team member Gregory Delory of the University of California at Berkeley.

The spent rocket body created its own crater roughly 60 to 100 feet across. Some of the vapor reached as high as about 25 miles, but most of the material shot out laterally from the impact. The mission had been something of a public relations dud initially because of problems with the live video stream. Amateur astronomers had hoped to see the impact with backyard telescopes, but the mission leaders switched to a different target that put the plume behind a lunar ridge.

But the scientific results are dramatic. The material excavated by the collision contains not only water, but other complex molecules that are still being analyzed and which may offer clues to the origin of the solar system. These shadowed, extremely cold craters on the moon are the solar system's dusty attic, the scientists said.
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"Oh my goodness, it's a lot more complicated than we really anticipated," said NASA scientist Anthony Colaprete, the leader of the LCROSS team. "It wasn't just water, there was a lot more interesting stuff in there."

Water on the moon could prove to be a valuable resource for space exploration. Not only could it provide drinking water for astronauts, it could be used to create rocket fuel. NASA's long-term strategy for exploration officially includes a return of astronauts to the moon, but plans are up in the air as the Obama Administration examines alternatives that might include bypassing the moon in the near term.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...111301986.html

Pioli Zombie · 11-13-2009, 09:45 PM

"Lovell wasn't capable of walking on the moon. All the magazines had him rated as a Command Module Pilot, not a Commander. "
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GloryDayz · 11-13-2009, 09:57 PM

Houston, we have a problem..

Pioli Zombie · 11-13-2009, 10:00 PM

"Sure, all the Lovell lovers are going to make him out to be a hero for getting the ship back during garbage time. But when they could have made the moon he blew it."
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**DaneMcCloud** · 11-13-2009, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Pioli Zombie

"Sure, all the Lovell lovers are going to make him out to be a hero for getting the ship back during garbage time. But when they could have made the moon he blew it."
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You know, I think you're pretty weak hiding behind a cellphone.

Are you trying to convince us that you are NOT a dupe and that you don't have a computer with internet access?

If so, EPIC FAIL.

Pioli Zombie · 11-13-2009, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

You know, I think you're pretty weak hiding behind a cellphone.

Are you trying to convince us that you are NOT a dupe and that you don't have a computer with internet access?

If so, EPIC FAIL.

Its a hell of a lot easier posting on the phone anywhere I might be than confining myself to only posting on the ****ing computer. Is that alright with you, jackass?
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Hammock Parties · 11-13-2009, 11:16 PM

The apes are drinking moon water. On the moon. Moon apes.

**HemiEd** · 11-13-2009, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Donger

Awesome.

It really is, what an amazing development. Sputnik to this, in the last 52 years.

**HemiEd** · 11-13-2009, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by 38yrsfan

Yes, it really is a big deal for many reasons, those listed - human consumption, fuel production, etc. Though one of the biggest is if it is found on the moon it is really possible to find it elsewhere ..... life beyond the human.

Don't forget, you are talking to the XBox generation, it wouldn't seem like a big deal to them.

Pioli Zombie · 11-14-2009, 08:01 AM

Ok now that we know something could live there, its time to destroy it, right?
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Sweet Daddy Hate · 11-14-2009, 08:58 AM

JFC; like we haven't known this shit "off the record" for 30+years now. Do you think those craft were taking all of that freshwater across the galaxy to the "Great Aquarium in the Sky" for ****'s sake?

Xbox or Talking Box; stupidity favors no technology or generation.

Crush · 11-14-2009, 09:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Pioli Zombie

Ok now that we know something could live there, its time to destroy it, right?
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We need to kill it with fire.

Crush · 11-14-2009, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by GoChiefs

The apes are drinking moon water. On the moon. Moon apes.

Moon Apes would be a kick ass name for a band.

**notorious** · 11-14-2009, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Admiral Crunch

We need to kill it with fire.

Just like in The Thing. Call Kurt Russell up and let's kick some ****ing ass!

Dr. Zaius and Cornelius are welcome, too, GoChiefs.

demonhero · 11-14-2009, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Pioli Zombie

Ok now that we know something could live there, its time to destroy it, right?
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^this

milkman · 11-14-2009, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by SEKChiefsFan

Something like 400k workers on the project; all getting paid.

That's a lot of people you're paying to perpetuate a hoax.

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