Water Ice Hides In Moon's Dark Craters

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Water Ice Hides In Moon's Dark Craters


An artist's rendition of the LCROSS spacecraft
separating from its rocket as it heads on a collision
course with the moon.

That's right, folks - NASA hit the Moon where the sun don't shine...

A hundred foot crater, 24 gallons of water.

One, Intersticial water in rocks accounts for that, but that would take knowing Geology, and this is NASA.

Americas best science, has yet to learn the Metric System.

Moon water is measured in CCs per cubic Meter of rock.

30 Meter crater, several hundred cubic meters, about 200 CC per Meter, same as Earth Rocks.

In other news a 23 foot (7.2 Meter) chunk flew by on the 11th, it missed Earth by one radius, 8,600 miles, (12,000 Kilometers.) It was discovered 15 hours before it just missed us.

NASA was informed, and kept it a secret. If it was a Planet Killer, we will all die without knowing.

For what we are paying these fools we can build a 300 Kilometer base pyramid of Lego.

Darnit, and I thought they were gonna say that Rita's had opened up a location on the moon! *pouts*

Interstitial water? On the MOON??

You may know geography, friend Inventor, but I think you might need to brush up on your selenography...

Correction, missed by one diameter.

By the, The Moon is made of Green Cheeze, wait, that has been updated to Earth Rock, from when 4/5 of the crust was blown into space in an impact event, which happened sometime between 65,000,000 years ago, or Billions of years ago, and either way, the outward splater all rejoined into a ball, and hung around.

If either view is true, it is Earth Formed Rock.

I remember when they faked the Moon landing, claiming to put a retro rocket craft down in a sea of dust, and never raised a cloud in 1/6 gravity. If it had been a real Moon landing, the cloud would have hung for days, weeks, months? Maybe the wind blew it away. They are shown walking, hopping, through dust, that stays on the ground like good dust.

On a life critical mission, they brought their golf clubs.

2001 was a better movie.

....Okay, Mr Gloom on a motorcycle.

1: We're the human race. We're not gods. We fail too. So be it.
2: If they told people "HEY, WE ALMOST GOT INSTA-KILLED BY SPACE-RUBBLE!", said people would go running in circles and cutting each-other up with hatchets screaming "FISH HEADS, FISH HEADS!" because of "1".
3:The point is not that there is as much water on the moon as there is on earth in a good o'l block-o-rock...

The point is that the moon actually HAS water. Which is good. Because we can use it. Even if there isn't any more then on earth.

............Yes, I realize one of these days this house of cards of a society will come tumbling down. But I like it. Our species is like...well like harddrugs, to be honest.
Live hard, live short.

Live long and prosper(<See the irony?)

The complete lack of air and vacuum of space would make moon dust settle very quickly.

As the most important site in space exploration, "One small step for man," Where is the Hubble image of this historic place?

The Hubble isn't designed to focus on anything less than a lightyear away. At 250,000 miles, give or take, Tranquility Base is just too close and small for the Hubble to see. (Imagine trying to focus on a single mite clinging to one of your eyelashes...)

Okay, what's the next conspiracy-theorist talking point to be regurgitated whole?

now all we have to do is to find a way to collect it and sell it here on Earth....the fortunes to be made...

*applauds*

Incidentally, the LRO has photographed the various Apollo sites and landmarks from (where else?) lunar orbit. Linky for the non-paranoid.

Also, a 7 metre chunk of space debris wouldn't do an awful lot if it hit us. Tunguska was much bigger and even that did only localised damage (though a Tunguska sized bang near a major city would be very nasty.) The more damage something can potentially do, the bigger it needs to be. The bigger it is, the rarer it is, and also the more obvious it is, hence we're both less likely to be hit by one and more likely to see it coming with plenty of warning.