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LCROSS probe (NASA)
NASA announced a spacecraft that purposely slammed into the moon has turned up evidence of water.
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.
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UMMM - what has this got to do with the weather? And why is it almost verbatim like the AP story written about this subject?
This story is a major break through in astronomy and weather. They discovered an ice field and or water and ice and you say what does this have to do with weather since this is space.
Saturn is known for its thunderstorms which is weather, because this is space, does not mean it is not related to weather.
I do not normally cover space news but this a major break through as I am sure everyone agrees.
And I did not get this story from the AP, if you read most of the stories relating to this discovery, most are similar.
But thanks for visiting the Jackson Weather Examiner
All this wonderful news will come in handy for the Chinese. This country will never return to the moon. We will be too broke after 2 trillion dollar annual deficits. So whatever good derives from this information will accrue to other nations, and not to us. A 79 million dollar rock thrown at the moon to find out whether there is water there. Interesting science. Idiotic spending. We should just have sent the money to Bejing and settle into the social octagenarianism to leaves the great adventure of exploring space to nation that are not delusional spendthrifts and anti-growth ninnies. next time, NASA please tell us how to go to the moon with GREEN ENERGY!
Just a thought for those who think that this was "Idiotic spending". Most of the 79 million went to our countries top scientists and engineers. The American companies who built the craft provided jobs to your friends and neighbors. These are the same people who will develop the green energy technologies of tomorrow. Space exploration will also help to inspire the young people of today.
I'm with Jackson and Mike! This is incredible stuff. I am absolutely for cure to diseases, I think we invest there too!? But we're just as likely to be destroyed by an asteroid or otherwise need to flee to space. Confirming sustainable amounts of water on the moon is as much in support of sustaining life as the homeland research. And we do employ large numbers of highly educated folks who then spend that money in our own economy. What's bad about this? Why wouldn't you find this fascinating?
wonderful! Next stop mars? =)
Just to prove America better, you cannot lie about Nasa finding water on the moon. For your kind of Information it was INDIA who led this discovery to reality. By lieing about this, you are not proving that America is better but proving that how weak America's people are.
I can guarentee that America did not went on moon. And that too in 19th century. Not even now any country can go to moon and come back safely in 2009. Man this AMERICA and their
LIES WILL KEEP GOING ON AND ON AND ON AND ON........................
And I AGREE WITH AVANI
I refreshed to check out the comments. You guys are hilarious! So it's a conspiracy!? Wow! Don't comment if you haven't followed what's lead up. We've been planning to slam a probe back on the surface of the moon for a while. It happened. Cool. And within a short period of time this investment as yielded results. Cool. We've broken a few. Why must people turn everything to conspiracy...us against them? By the way, India, or was it China, regardless of who's doing the research out there, we're all in this when it comes to this level of survival. The bright minds of all our great progressive nations get it which is why they give each other a high five coming and going off the space station. I bet Americans are finishing the Japanese rice from the last stock up on inventory.
$79 mil is pretty cheap by science standards, especially for a discovery with this much potential.
Avani - that was a NASA instrument, and US dollars, in the Indian probe. It's success made this test worth doing.
Yuri - take a few minutes to see how much medical and agricultural advancement has come from the space program. It will take you a lot longer for a full picture, but a few minutes will paint a good outline.
Honestly, i dont really care if they found ice on the moon or not. my oppinion is that it is a wast of time, effort and money. If they built a 'new earth' on the moon. who is wealthy enough to live there anyway. i guess if you earned $1 Billion a year you would be fine... ehem ehemm
Look ppl, all of you saying that america is weak an this and that, then why the hell are you here? take your weak as to another country that you feel is better. our great country is the best and most advanced and its awsome that we found water on the moon. im proud to be a sergeant in this great nations army. and this is coming from a hispanic/latin man, not just a red neck in the military. i love our country and i cant stand ppl putting it down. we have taken a big step forward and made history with this discovery.
congratulations.this world is squeezing due to population explosion.those who wants to live in peace may live on moon.Moon shall be out of bound for the followings please.
All kind of soldier
All kind of arsinal
hydrocarbon fuels
UNO officials
IMF officials
certainly any discovery of suck a kind is great. science and research is worth more than what we spend on it. we are not sure though if this discovery is real or just an illusion. anyways, best of luck for all scientists, and may God bless all..
It is a great thing that the Indian scientists have discovered water on moon. I hope that they succeed finding water on moon. Maybe in the future when the world will end then we can stay on moon. I am in Grade 6, living in Chiang Mai Thailand, and I am from India.
This is Totally lie...
Its a discovered event by humankind now,but we must believe that creature has created every things before ,and our prophecy is to find them as well as they are .
be succeed in every step in your life.
Pretty cool! Water on moon! Nice!
Crazy dumb heads!
Whoah first of all the bashes on America are a little uncalled for, I dont think you can properly judge a country without actually spending some time there. I agree their government is messed up but the people are good. Secondly I agree that we should be focusing the money on more important issues. $79 billion seems like a lot of money to waste. I realize the importance of this find but I would rather spend the money on finding cures or feeding starving children.
i think NASA "American" guys are smoking really nice stuff, cause this much hallucination is abnormal. jack ass and punk d lovers, what to say more!!
Good job America, this is an other success. Go on and try to find any track af life :)))
certainly any discovery of suck a kind is great. science and research is worth more than what we spend on it. we are not sure though if this discovery is real or just an illusion. anyways, best of luck for all scientists, and may God bless all..
congratulation, I'm so happy and excited
I think the point to those who say 'wow, so what?' is that water is the key to life in the universe (at least on Earth so it's a pretty good starting point) therefore if we find water on other celestial bodies it's a good indication of other life in the universe. And it's not just an 'American' point, exploration and the thirst to expand is built into mankind (even us Brits have done a bit of that) so I'm afraid pushing the boundaries of knowledge is here to stay.
who command the sun where to stay till the morning and who knows where the moon hide till the evening and who commanded the sea, coeans, and river that they can only flow on the direction they have been told to and who can catch a falling star. Now we know that our reedemer liveth, all of God's creation testifies that he lives yesterday, today and foever more.
great job NASA. people may look at the picture that is right in front of them and say that a bunch of money is wasted by crashing that, but nobody looks at the possible future picture of life besides our own world, and a possible future for the human race in other places besides Earth.
and Sergeant, very nice! i stand by you on that 100%. you all can be jealous of my country for doing something first. unlike most of you others posting comments, I have defended the rights of my country and its citizens, while YOU sit on your rear and have someone do just that for you.
good jobb!!!!!!!!!!!
It's very nice to know that scientists are squeezing their minds to find an alternative place to live in. But it is just waste of time and money. It should be very useful for humanity that scientists find a remedy to problems that THEY have created on earth (AIDS, Nuclear pollution, Insectside...etc. and everything science has created in the sake of human confort) then, you may talk about useful research that aim to find water on wathever planet you kike. For the moment Cancer disease in some of its types is caused by soiled water due to chimical substances. so instead of looking for water on the moon, scientists ought to be more concerned with the quality of water on earth.
tell avani to tell their country to come see how weak our country is, we'll see what happens then. US Armed Forces.
congrats
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!
but not different 4 us///
:):::::))))))))))
Iam a nepelese citizen living in police school Sanga,kavre and I would like to congratulate those scientists who have got marvellous success in finding the vital element of life i.e. water on the surface of moon. this magnificient discovery has opened the door to the moon making it a possible place to save the human seed at the crucial time of natural calamity.
The money used for this purpose has got its best use. Money should not be used only for eating and curing purpose . this is trivial use of money.Many many congratulations once again!
Um I guess nice job?? It used to be the space program was the most expensive thing we seemed to spend out monies on... this seems pretty inexpensive compared to what we'll spend on health care... 1.5 trillon dollars..
Soyuz, Krisha and Sangita say that this is the most praise worthy and the historic discovery in the history of human beings. For this important deed the American scients have been the object of heart felt gratitude and appriciation. These scientists have written their names in the golden letters and have contributed the whole mankind for its longer existence. So God bless you guys and get further success in this endeavour.From Nepal police School ,sanga Kavre, Kathmandu, Nepal
Okay - time for some truths. Across the globe, but especially in the developed world, longevity and levels of health are at historic highs. One of the reasons for this is the efforts through science. Now, thanks to those efforts, as well as concerted efforts on the parts of some religions, we have massive population growth, putting enormous pressure on science and governments ability to sustain food, energy and disease control. Simple fact - if population was smaller, everyone would be healthier / live longer. You cant have it both ways. No one is talking about population control - why not? Science is doing the best job in spending this money to expand our chances of finding new places to live. If they were to stop and spend it all "fixing" the worlds problems, we'd have 10 billion on the planet in no time, and even worse conditions. You cant have your cake and eat it people!
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that is so cool
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Balance - There are two kinds of people in the world: The first points out problems and bring them to attention, and the latter propose solutions to those problems. As a race, we are well aware of our 'population crisis', and I assure you we are already searching for solutions. Look at the widespread birth control across the globe. This is just one sign of our attempts at controlling population.
Personally, I think we need an overhaul of our agricultural system. The way we farm is destructive and shortsighted. What I'm suggesting is food control, or using food levels to control population instead of having population control food levels. If we change food output gradually towards a neutral trend of increase, then we should be able to avoid even one person (that isn't already in a resource-depleted situation)from starving.
Besides, any anthropologist would agree that fear of societal collapse has brought more destruction and chaos then actual societal collapse. Don't worry about i
cool
Hey Johnny...thanks for your story. Linked it up with mine on the Nashville Examiner site.
what?
i want to drink some moon water!!!
It seems like there is prerequisite to clicking send on this website. Apparently you must make sure that you've either misspelled something or made an elementary grammar mistake.
Yuri says: "Fed the hungry..."
NEE says: "I can guarentee that America did not went on moon."
Sef says: "my oppinion is that it is a wast of time, effort and money."
Imram says: "This is Totally lie... "
If you want someone to listen to you learn to spell.
Fucking idiots.
Fail.
didn't Chandrayaan the Indian satellite finds water on Moon ? Before this? I think the instruments were NASA but the sat was indian. Not trying to be an ass, but this announcement came from India b4 the US so how could NASA have discovered it? Please elaborate.
Water on the moon... I wonder if it has the same percentage of oxygen, nitrogen, argon, etc as earth water does?
i have a question... that would prove that the moon comes out from the earth right? they say that when the earth was cooling down wiel spining somo parts from the earth separated and formed the moon thats a theaory sins they found out that the moon each time a year pases the moon moves 1 inch so if you go back the years the moon is practicly touching the earth so can that prove that the mon comes out from the earth???
Oh, this is awesome! It's really amazing there is water somewhere else other than Earth. I agree that we really need to focus our time on the sick and hungry, but we shouldn't confine all of our money and energy to /just/ the sick and hungry. We need to balance it out. Soon we might not have much room left on Earth. So what's the harm searching for other planets we can live on? I think it's pretty cool. (:
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