ICE ON MOON!
NASA announced a spacecraft that purposely rammed into the moon has generated evidence of water. While no explosives were used, the impact of the rocket was so massive, it acted like an explosive. NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite probe discovered beds of water ice at the lunar south pole when it impacted the moon last month. The LCROSS probe impacted the lunar south pole at a crater called Cabeus on Oct. 9. The $79 million spacecraft, preceded by its Centaur rocket stage, hit the lunar surface in an effort to create a debris plume that could be analyzed by scientists for signs of water ice. Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator from NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California: Indeed, yes, we found water. And we didn't find just a little bit, we found a significant amount Scientists have long suspected that permanently shadowed craters at the south pole of the moon could be cold enough to sustain water frozen at the surface and have been analyzing a mile-high plume of debris kicked up by the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite. One result is that the quest for swiss cheese on the moon has finally been terminated. Another significant result of this is the fact that lunar astronauts need never go thirsty again. Several from Cookeville, Tennessee expressed wonder that water actually was on the moon. Most Popular |
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