Monday, 29 August 2011

NASA Latest Updates: There is water on moon


               This figure shows that NASA has announced that there is water on moon after it intentionally collided its LCROSS spacecraft with the lunar surface and examined the debris of this collision. Earlier Chandrayan had found evidence of this fact.

NASA Has announced that there is water on the moon. The evidence of this water was discovered after the NASA spacecraft LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observatory and Sensing Satellite) discovered water ice beds at the lunar south pole, when it impacted the moon. Cabeus - the lunar south pole crater was intentionally impacted by LCROSS on Friday, October 9.

The LCROSS spacecraft, which was built at a cost of $79 million, crashed the lunar surface so that scientists could probe the debris for the presence of water. The project scientist Anthony Colaprete, who is also the principal investigator for NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffet Field, said "Indeed yes, we found water. And we didn't find just a little bit, we found a significant amount."

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