It's Official: Water Found on the Moon

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Breaking News

6:09pm UK, Friday November 13, 2009
'Significant' Amount Of Water Found On Moon

Ian Collier, Sky News Online
A "significant" amount of water has been found on the Moon, according to Nasa.

Preliminary data from a Moon probe "indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater," Nasa said.

"The discovery opens a new chapter in our understanding of the Moon," it added in a statement.

The data was found after Nasa sent two spacecraft crashing into the lunar surface last month in a dramatic experiment to probe for water.

One rocket slammed into the Cabeus crater, near the Moon's southern pole, at around 5,600mph.

It was followed four minutes later by a spacecraft equipped with cameras to record the impact.

Crash landing two spacecraft onto surface of moon

Mission was launched in October

"We are ecstatic," said Anthony Colaprete, project scientist and principal investigator for the LCROSS mission.

"Multiple lines of evidence show water was present in both the high angle vapor plume and the ejecta curtain created by the LCROSS Centaur impact.

"The concentration and distribution of water and other substances requires further analysis, but it is safe to say Cabeus holds water."

Scientists had previously theorized that, except for the possibility of ice at the bottom of craters, the moon was totally dry.

Finding water on Earth's natural satellite is a major breakthrough in space exploration.

"We're unlocking the mysteries of our nearest neighbour and, by extension, the solar system," said Michael Wargo, chief lunar scientist at Nasa headquarters in Washington.

[sercor::jhumzki]

way links? ü

[saidox]

links here.. NASA.gov

[linogzkie]

dili kaha ni one giant lie for mankind napud?

[ethzneuron]

dili na ko matingala ani kay naa man gani ang mercury nga mas duol sa sun... nuon water ice to.

[rodsky]

dili kaha ni one giant lie for mankind napud?

You believe in the existence of a cellphone (a technological achievement) kay magunitan nimo linogzkie, so unless makagunit pod ka'g ice from the Moon (yet another technological achievement), you won't believe it exists.

This sort of assessment tells a lot about what sort of person you are.

-RODION

[Fern]

wa lang ta kabaw... basin naay ecosystem sa underground sa moon

[thaDUKE]

bcin naay life form did2

[vernie]

The next big news to hear is when they will tell you that the sun is a huge body of water and it is not really hot on its surface.

[Divemaster]

di ba dugay naman ni nila nahibaw-an nga naay ice sa moon? same lang gihapon nga naay ice sa mars