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Saturday, November 14, 2009

NASA spacecraft confirms water ice deposits on moon

This is really from a couple of days ago , been busy ,busy ,busy !
But Amazing , not only did they find water this time but they found a significant amount ! So much that it will now stir the brains of NASA into a full fledged Moon Mission ! ( If they Can Keep Obama Out of the Way )
....CNET
Making a bigger splash than expected, the crash of an empty rocket stage in a permanently shadowed crater near the moon's south pole last month kicked up a surprising amount of water ice and vapor, confirming the presence of a potentially valuable resource for future space travelers.

"I'm here today to tell you that indeed, yes, we found water," said Anthony Colaprete, the project scientist and principal investigator for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite. "And we didn't find just a little bit, we found a significant amount."

Holding up water jugs to make the point, he said "if you remember, a month ago we were talking about teaspoons going into glasses over football fields. Well, now I can say today that in the 20- to 30-meter (65- to 100-foot-wide) crater LCROSS made, we found maybe about a dozen of these two-gallon buckets worth of water."

And more than water. Data from the LCROSS instruments show signs of other compounds that may shed light on the moon's evolution.

"It's a whole lot more beyond the water," Colaprete said. "That's the exciting part in my mind, it's not only about the water now. There's actually a lot more here that we're going to be talking about in the months ahead, looking at the LCROSS data."



" With every new discovery in space we come closer to "Seeing" What is Really/actually there !
It is Human nature to Explore , Space should not be left off the Map Because of Some Jackass's Political View ! or Religious beliefs , whats there is there and that is the reality of it , Created by a God , Or by some other means !
For anyone to think that we are the only ones Floating around the Universe , is the root of true Arrogance ! "



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