Look What They Found on the Moon!

http://channels.isp.netscape.com ^ | 8 / 23 / 2010 | --From the Editors at Netscape

[J Edgar]

I was specifically referring to this part of the announcement:

” ... this all changed when actual measurements were taken using the Mini-SAR and Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3 or “M-cubed”) instruments on India’s Chandrayaan-1 moon probe ... “

[dangerdoc]

I thought they were going to say Obama’s birth certificate.

[OldDeckHand]

"I was specifically referring to this part of the announcement:"

Right. LCROSS examined parts of the moon that had never been fully explored before, and certainly different areas than the cursory & superficial exploration made by the Astronauts. Simply put, the Astronauts had no way to examine anything much below a few inches to a foot of ancient lunar "dust", nor did they have any ability to look deeply into these craters on the dark side of the Moon, where some of this water is now known to exist in frozen state.

It's much like standing on top of a Blue Ridge mountain peak in the 10th century BC, and not seeing any coal, although clearly we now know centuries later coal is incredibly abundant in that region. The same could be said about the aquifers located beneath Death Valley. Standing in Death Valley, one would be hard pressed to find much water. But it's there - plenty of it. You just need to know where to look.

[J Edgar]

Ok thanks for the information. It is much appreciated.

[The Comedian]

Moon Base Alpha!

Yup.

Open 1999. Closed by Obama's budget cuts 2010.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[The Comedian]

They will now try to get the moon declared a wetlands so that no development can take place!

That's *not* funny.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Brett66]

Of all the remakes they are making, you think they would have done Space 1999 already, but maybe they’d have to call it Space 2099?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ATOMIC_PUNK. The Earth by contrast had over 330 million cubic miles of water.

Scientists don't know why some of the lunar craters contain pure ice, while others have an ice-soil mixture.

Some are more recent than others.

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[OldDeckHand]

"Of all the remakes they are making, you think they would have done Space 1999 already, but maybe they’d have to call it Space 2099?"

They have been trying to remake it since the early 90's. It was going to be called "Space:2009", but that ship has sailed, clearly. I've heard they're still trying to get it launched, but it's in the embryonic stage.

I agree though, it's surprising it hasn't been done already considering I saw a remake of "The A Team" just a few weeks ago.

[Quix]

There are actual reports claiming to have seen our folks living there running around loose outside of dwellings without helmets.

[SunkenCiv]

• Russia to launch neutron generator to moon in 2012 -- Russia will bring impulse neutron generator to the moon in 2012, Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday. "Roscosmos plans to send to the moon a spacecraft bearing a neutron generator developed by our institute, to study lunar surface," RIA Novosti news agency quoted Yevgeny Bogolyubov, the deputy chief designer of the Automation Engineering Scientific Research Institute as saying. The IGN-10 K neutron generator, designed to determine the content of water in the soil, will also be used to study the Mars surface, said the leading space researcher. The scientist...

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• We may yet be walking on the moon -- The possibility of humans living on the moon has moved a step closer after scientists discovered that water there was more widespread than thought.

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• Moon Has 100 Times More Water, New Study Suggests -- The moon's interior may harbor 100 times more water than previous estimates, according to a new study that took a fresh look at samples of moon rocks collected by Apollo astronauts nearly 40 years ago. The researchers determined that the lunar water likely originated early in the moon's formation history, suggesting that it is, in fact, native to the moon. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, and other colleagues, said it's likely that the water was preserved from the hot magma that was present when the moon began to form -- some 4.5 billion years ago.

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• Scientists find huge quantities of water, ice on the moon -- There may be more than 600 million metric tons of water ice sitting in craters at the moon's north pole. The discovery, made by an Indian spacecraft, could mean big things for human colonization of our nearest neighbor. BBC: A radar experiment aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar spacecraft has identified thick deposits of water ice near the Moon's north pole. The US space agency's (Nasa) Mini-Sar experiment found more than 40 small craters containing water ice.

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[dragnet2]

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I'm confident water isn't the only valuable resource on, in, or under the lunar surface.

[dragnet2]

That has yet to be discovered.

[SunkenCiv]

Whoops! Thanks KoRn!

[SunkenCiv]

There’s not a lot of water on the Moon, just more than previously thought. And it’s still not a lot. The Moon, having 1/100th the mass of the Earth, doesn’t hold on to gas, and water winds up transitioning directly from ice to vapor pretty easily in a vacuum or near-vacuum.

The Apollo missions didn’t spend an awful lot of time on the surface, and much of that was spent in rock retrieval, plus they had to photograph each rock six or eight times. :’) The main discovery was that impact was over 99 percent dominant in the “geology” of the Moon.

[Pecos]

Because neither one can whistle, is the official answer. Though, as the book/computer points out, the laser could be used to modulate a noise source and thus create a whistle.