Moon likely has water: Experts

Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:40 am » by **Pindz**

Tom Spears, Ottawa Citizen: Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Three major studies and a new NASA expedition are all pointing to a strong chance that the moon has surface water, a finding that could make a "tremendous difference" to further space exploration.

Nearly 40 years after scientists examined rocks and dismissed the moon as a dry body, the studies of Indian satellite data are saying otherwise.

Moon water would be a "huge" boost to space exploration, experts said Wednesday.

Richard Herd, a Geological Survey of Canada scientist who serves on the Canadian Space Exploration Advisory Committee, likens it to finding an oasis in the desert.

Instead of hauling all their water along with them, space explorers could depend on moon water, he said.

"All this relates to a much bigger topic. . . . Resources where you are going mean you don't have to take them with you and, indeed, may ensure your ability to survive and return from wherever it is you want to go," said Herd. "Deposits of water throughout the solar system may make a tremendous difference to the effectiveness and longevity of any space missions."

The satellite in the new study analyzes sunlight reflected from the moon. The pattern of wavelengths indicates this light is bouncing off rocks that contain hydrogen and oxygen bound together, likely as water.

Astrophysicist Paul Lucey of the University of Hawaii's Institute of Geophysics and Planetology wrote in an article to be published Thursday in the journal Science that the discovery shows "a proven source of water on the surface of the Moon."

"Perhaps the most valuable result of these new observations is that they prompt a critical re-examination of the notion that the moon is dry. It is not," he wrote.

Meanwhile, NASA is preparing to blast two projectiles into the moon's surface on Oct. 9 to analyze the debris the impacts will kick up. The space agency is hoping — and now expecting — to find ice crystals or water vapour.

The frozen water is believed to exist in deep craters near the moon's poles, which are in permanent shadow that protects the water from evaporation.

Next month, NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission will take the hunt for water a step further.

It will use the same method as its Deep Impact probe, which smashed a projectile into comet Tempel 1 in July 2005, and analyzed the innards of a comet for the first time.

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Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:05 pm » by **2012news**

AT LAST.... WATER ON THE MOON.
Imagine the comments of the scientist who says that they want to blast the crater on the moon because they are in search of water to mix with moon dust. Why not take some water from here to mix, my friend?
India has all along been saying that there is a habitation on the moon called Chandra Loka. They have been consistently saying that on this earth, below big rivers and lakes, there is extraterrestrial life. One Indian God Krishna in fact had to go down and fight with a serpent king and ask him to go because the serpent king was killing cows. When I read this story, the incidents of cattle mutilation came to mind.

The ancient indian books also say that there is life on other planets like Mars and Jupiter. Perhaps progress in intelligence is not linear but cyclic.

Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:25 pm » by **Pindz**

2012news wrote:AT LAST.... WATER ON THE MOON.
Imagine the comments of the scientist who says that they want to blast the crater on the moon because they are in search of water to mix with moon dust. Why not take some water from here to mix, my friend?
India has all along been saying that there is a habitation on the moon called Chandra Loka. They have been consistently saying that on this earth, below big rivers and lakes, there is extraterrestrial life. One Indian God Krishna in fact had to go down and fight with a serpent king and ask him to go because the serpent king was killing cows. When I read this story, the incidents of cattle mutilation came to mind.

The ancient indian books also say that there is life on other planets like Mars and Jupiter. Perhaps progress in intelligence is not linear but cyclic.

Thank You !!!
Very Interesting....

Thu Sep 24, 2009 3:33 pm » by **2012news**

MORE THAN 40 YEARS OF IGNORANCE OF NASA OR LIES?

After all those tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer money spent, tens of Apollos sent, millions of photos taken, not a drop of water was discovered until Chandra went to the moon?

Can you believe this story? Can anyone not protest against NASA?

Thu Sep 24, 2009 3:43 pm » by **Pindz**

Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:37 pm » by **Ufosearcher**

2012news wrote:MORE THAN 40 YEARS OF IGNORANCE OF NASA OR LIES?

After all those tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer money spent, tens of Apollos sent, millions of photos taken, not a drop of water was discovered until Chandra went to the moon?

Can you believe this story? Can anyone not protest against NASA?

What is most surprising is, one of the most momentous discoveries of our planet, this news, but noone is interested. It is not an assumption but a confirmed news. Yet no interest. People are very busy with other things . anyway...

Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:21 pm » by **bugmenot**

NASA on moon water

nasa giving live interview right now http://www.cnn.com/live/

Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:46 pm » by **Snake Plissken**

My thoughs exactly 2012, not meaning to be little NASA, but it took them fucking long enough didnt it? :wink:

And like you say, a bit odd this should emerge only after a independant mission from India..

I wonder how many more coll discoveries will be made my separate, NASA free , space programs???

Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:21 pm » by **bugmenot**

slushpup wrote:
bugmenot wrote: NASA on moon water

nasa giving live interview right now http://www.cnn.com/live/

Here is a part of the live telecast.. I recorded it a little late but here is what I got..

nice