Posted on 03/02/2010 3:57:18 AM PST by James C. Bennett
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.
Read more:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8544635.stm
Chandrayaan-1's Mini-SAR radar was one of two instruments involving NASA on India's Chandrayan-1 spacecraft. The probe also carried the Moon Mineralogy Mapper for NASA. A version of Mini-SAR, called Mini-RF, is riding on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
India launched Chandrayaan-1 probe in October 2008 and carried 11 instruments to observe the moon from lunar orbit. It was India's first moon probe and carried an impactor probe that it unleashed in November 2008.
/mark
Water at the Lunar Poles, Water at the Martian poles, and 0bama is having them declared as preserved wetlands.
The US space agency’s (Nasa) Mini-Sar experiment found more than 40 small craters containing water ice.
probably got there by comet bombardment
The chicoms will enjoy it... hussein has fixed it where we will never go back.
LLS
No, Obama’s shutdown of NASA is so that we can’t leave his presence/influence. I do find it interesting that we are finding the things humans need to leave the earth are out there waiting for us.
Global warming?
I guess this is good news for the Chinese; eh Obama?
Fits in very nicely with Dr. Walt Brown’s hydroplate theory. See part II of creationscience.com for more info regarding his theory.
Nevermind the water, what about all those green and red circles & arrows they found! ...have they figured out how they could have got there?
Yep rocks, dirt, and radiation.
I’m somewhat skeptical about this. If you take water, freeze it and put it in a vacumn (like on the moon), it quickly sublimes away. I remember the words of an old professor when I showed him a scientific paper from India where they had gotten something to work that many others had tried and failed to do. His response was “Everything works in India”.
Are sea levels on the moon rising as rapidly as they are here?
And I'm sure these wetlands are populated with endangered species.
The Indians found ice & water on the moon...? Well, of course. You need ice water for all that spicy curry they found there, too....
You think they altered NASA's radar instrument?
Remember, these are the same ‘scientists’ that “found” ‘global warming’ on the earth! I recommend healthy skepticism for anyone planning to ‘buy real estate’ on the moon.
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