Posted on 03/23/2010 6:25:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Until recently the moon was thought to be bone dry. But measurements in the last year from the Mini-SAR and Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3 or "M-cubed") instruments on India's Chandrayaan-1 moon probe and from NASA's recent LCROSS mission have proved that wrong.
Mini-SAR found 40 craters, each containing frozen water at least 6.6 feet (2 meters) deep on the lunar surface – which adds up to 600 million tons of lunar ice stuff altogether. LCROSS slammed into the moon on Oct. 9, 2009 and found evidence of water in another crater.
"So far we've found three types of moon water," said Paul Spudis of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas. "We have Mini-SAR's thick lenses of nearly pure crater ice, LCROSS's fluffy mix of ice crystals and dirt, and M-cube's thin layer that comes and goes all across the surface of the moon."
"It looks as though at least two different layers of our crater soil contain water, and they represent two different time epochs," said Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS principal investigator. "The first layer, ejected in the first 2 seconds from the crater after impact, contains water and hydroxyl bound up in the minerals, and even tiny pieces of pure ice mixed in. This layer is a thin film and may be relatively 'fresh,' perhaps recently replenished."
This brand of moon water resembles the water M3 discovered last year in scant but widespread amounts, bound to the rocks and dust in the very top millimeters of lunar soil, scientists say. But the second layer is different.
The researchers don't yet know why some craters contain loads of pure ice while others are dominated by an ice-soil mixture. It's probably a sign that the moon water comes from more than one source.
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So much for the chesse theory, it’ a neopolitan.
They have two flavors of moon pies now too.
and 3 more flavors than the libtard drink in Kool Aid.
Such as mud, dirt, and dust? =.=
"So far we've found three types of moon water," said Paul Spudis of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas. "We have Mini-SAR's thick lenses of nearly pure crater ice, LCROSS's fluffy mix of ice crystals and dirt, and M-cube's thin layer that comes and goes all across the surface of the moon." "It looks as though at least two different layers of our crater soil contain water, and they represent two different time epochs," said Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS principal investigator. "The first layer, ejected in the first 2 seconds from the crater after impact, contains water and hydroxyl bound up in the minerals, and even tiny pieces of pure ice mixed in. This layer is a thin film and may be relatively 'fresh,' perhaps recently replenished."
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neapolitan ice cream
1.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLt8ZR4trD4&feature=related
2.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGnOe-fBg9w&feature=related
3.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee5gFE6sGe4&feature=related
4.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7tm2wd9mdo&feature=related
5.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWdtEEVp8Us&feature=related
6.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzVKt9z2S-o&feature=related
7.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekhPASgiG84&feature=related
If there is water on the moon, someone needs to ask Buzz Aldrin if he left it there when the cameras weren’t looking.
Thanks Fred Nerks!
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