Ringside seats for a REAL moonshot.
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Ringside seats for a REAL moonshot.
Nasa prepares to bomb the moon - Telegraph
I thought this needed posting up as the papers have pretty much ignored this once in a lifetime occasion and are providing blanket coverage of some slag from essex divorcing a retard instead. 
I couldnt care less about the science, I'm going to camp out all night with a six pack and a telescope to watch. 6 mile high crater visible from earth? I'd buy that for a dollar
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The aim is to see whether any traces of water will be revealed by the disruption caused to the planet's surface. Nasa will analyse the space cloud caused by the explosion for any sign of water or vapour.
Scientists expect the impact to blast out a huge cloud of dust, gas and vaporized water ice at least 6 miles high - making it visible from Earth.
If the search is successful it could provide vital supplies for a moonbase. The moon is mostly dry desert but ice may be trapped in craters which never see sunlight.
The unmanned Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission (LCROSS) will fire a Centaur rocket into the surface at twice the speed of a bullet.
An accompanying spacecraft will orbit the moon for a year looking for possible landing sites for astronauts. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will spend at least a year creating the most minutely detailed map of the moon's surface ever seen.
The vessel swill be the first American spacecrafts to make a lunar trip since 1999.
Astronomers have long thought that a rain of comets brought water to the arid, lifeless moon over billions of years.
In the past few years, at least two American spacecraft reported the presence of water by detecting hints of hydrogen and oxygen - the constituents of water - frozen deep in the darkest recesses of craters around both the north and south lunar poles.
Scientists expect the impact to blast out a huge cloud of dust, gas and vaporized water ice at least 6 miles high - making it visible from Earth.
If the search is successful it could provide vital supplies for a moonbase. The moon is mostly dry desert but ice may be trapped in craters which never see sunlight.
The unmanned Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission (LCROSS) will fire a Centaur rocket into the surface at twice the speed of a bullet.
An accompanying spacecraft will orbit the moon for a year looking for possible landing sites for astronauts. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will spend at least a year creating the most minutely detailed map of the moon's surface ever seen.
The vessel swill be the first American spacecrafts to make a lunar trip since 1999.
Astronomers have long thought that a rain of comets brought water to the arid, lifeless moon over billions of years.
In the past few years, at least two American spacecraft reported the presence of water by detecting hints of hydrogen and oxygen - the constituents of water - frozen deep in the darkest recesses of craters around both the north and south lunar poles.
I couldnt care less about the science, I'm going to camp out all night with a six pack and a telescope to watch. 6 mile high crater visible from earth? I'd buy that for a dollar
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From: Radiator Springs
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Erm, shouldn't they already know this? 
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Originally Posted by NASA
An accompanying spacecraft will orbit the moon for a year looking for possible landing sites for astronauts.
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This reeks of CIA involvement. I reckon that some eagle-eyed astronomer has spotted a dirty arab with a long beard and an AK47 under his arm hiding out in some caves up there.
One small step for man, one giant leap for Osama.
One small step for man, one giant leap for Osama.
They will blow up the bit where the moon landings were supposed to take place, so that when the Chinese REALLY land on the moon they can explain away why there is **** all there
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Interesting.
I bet thats what all of the conspiricists will say.
What if there is ice, and it all melts and turns the moon into an earth like planet. Is that possible?
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You've interpreted it to mean a wider choice of landing sites, it doesn't say that Also, they could land a craft on the moon 40 years ago when nobody had even been to the moon but now they have to spend a year looking for somewhere to park!!!!
Also, they could land a craft on the moon 40 years ago when nobody had even been to the moon but now they have to spend a year looking for somewhere to park!!!!
They have female astronauts now though.
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The Centaur Rocket is powered by, you guessed, "burning liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LOX)". These are the components of water. So if all the fuel isn't burnt then there will be traces left from the rocket itself.
Let the wild goose chasing begin
Let the wild goose chasing begin
According to the BBC they just found water on the moon....about a litre of water per cubic metre of moon soil..........
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Spacecraft see 'damp' Moon soils
Blasting a hole in it sounds like fun but probabaly a white elephant LOL
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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Spacecraft see 'damp' Moon soils
Blasting a hole in it sounds like fun but probabaly a white elephant LOL
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