LUNAR IMPACT: NASA's LCROSS spacecraft and its Centaur booster rocket will hit the Moon on Friday morning, Oct. 9th, at approximately 4:30 a.m. PDT (11:30 UT). The spectacular double-impact will be broadcast live on NASA TV. Can't wait? Click on the image below to watch a computer-generated preview (11 MB Quicktime):
The impacts are designed to unearth frozen water from the cold and shadowy floor of crater Cabeus near the lunar south pole. Moon water is valuable stuff. It costs about $30,000 to rocket a liter of water from Earth to the Moon. If NASA could find water already on the Moon, it would save a lot of money for future thirsty colonists. H2O also can be split into O2 for breathing and H2 for rocket fuel.
Evidence of water will be sought in two plumes of debris that billow out of Cabeus. The Hubble Space Telescope, NASA's Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter, and several great telescopes on Earth will monitor the plumes for spectral signs of water (H2O) or water fragments (OH).
This is totaly insane, the impact will knock the moon out of it's orbit and it will come crashing down somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle where it will disapear NEVER to be seen again. OMG no more harvest moons, no more blue moons and no more just mooning around, We are Doomed I tell Yuh Doomed.
ReplyDeleteOh, I think you are being tongue in cheek here, but, still I do wonder if there could be any unforseen problems with this action?
ReplyDeleteI think the Indian Chandrayaan-1 discovered evidence of water on the moon back in September.
ReplyDeleteIt had a NASA imaging spectrometer called the Moon Mineralogy Mapper designed specifically to search for water by picking up the electromagnetic radiation emitted by minerals.
Personally I am against crashing things into the moon.
Jeesh, NASA are taking their time with this one eh? This was launched over a year ago, and is only now getting round to performing it's 'mission'. Back in the good ol days with Neil and Buzz, we were doing 234,000 miles in what 3 days? OK, 4, give or take a couple of hours...
ReplyDeleteAnd the cheek of using so called images from LRO to 'prove' the Apollo landing site.
NASA (Never A Straight Answer)
lol @ word verification = aesses , yes quite.
Just a thought?
ReplyDeleteIs this really a weapons test?
Are they simulating a space based attack, on the moon, as opposed to the earths surface?
personally i doubt it Penny, but then who knows anything for sure... the bigger the lie and all that...
ReplyDeleteHave you ever heard of project bluebeam? (not to be confused with project blue book). For a light-hearted, large dose of salt theory, check it out.
Actually, I think it's kinda cool. I was listening to this guy on quirks and quarks a couple weeks ago. He sounded very excited.
ReplyDeleteI hope it answers some questions and sparks even more!
Moon, moon, moon, Moon, MOON.... moomoon. MOony moon. Moon M'moon. Moony-oony-oony. Ma-Hoooooon!
ReplyDeleteSorry I've gone a bit moon-mad.
Otherwise it seems that the moon has ten days to prove it doesn't have any nukes and after that we attack.
It has only itself to blame you know.