Nasa finds water on moon

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This image provided Friday, November 13, 2009 by NASA shows the ejecta plume created by the LCROSS Centaur upper stage rocket about 20 seconds after after impact October 9, 2009. It turns out there's plenty of water on the moon- at least near the lunar south pole, scientists said Friday. -- PHOTO: AP
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->WASHINGTON - A 'SIGNIFICANT amount' of frozen water has been found on the moon, the US space agency said on Friday heralding a giant leap forward in space exploration and boosting hopes of a permanent lunar base.
Preliminary data from a dramatic experiment on the moon 'indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater,' Nasa said in a statement.
'The discovery opens a new chapter in our understanding of the moon,' it added, as ecstatic scientists celebrated the landmark discovery.
'Yes indeed we found water and we did not find only a little bit but a significant amount,' said Anthony Colaprete, project scientist and principal investigator for the US$79 million (S$111 million) LCROSS mission.
The data was found after Nasa sent two spacecraft crashing into the lunar surface last month in a dramatic experiment to probe Earth's nearest neighbour for water.
'In the 20 to 30m crater we found maybe about a dozen, at least, two-gallon buckets of water. This is an initial result,' Dr Colaprete told reporters. -- AFP

 

[makapaaa]

Thot they found money there! Donch waste my time, OK? *chey*​

 

[angie II]

"Aiyah aliens pung jio lah"

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[Brightkid]

Another place to ship our old, passed used-by-date, zero/negative economic value people to, besides JB and Batam .

 

[Equalisation]

they also found 2 pandas there ....

 

[makapaaa]

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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->WASHINGTON - THE moon, which is once again the focus of an international space race, could hold the key to the birth of our planet some 4.5 billion years ago, and help unlock the oldest secrets of the universe.
Forty years after American Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, and as the United States aims to return astronauts to Earth's nearest neighbour by 2020, it remains an object of fascination and curiosity.
Part of the goal of once again returning to the moon - some 384,402km from the Earth - is to learn more about its hidden natural resources. As the Earth's natural resources gradually dwindle, some scientists believe the moon could prove a goldmine for future generations.
Among the 382kg of rocks and lunar soil brought back by astronauts from the moon during six Apollo missions is a rock that scientists call 'genesis', which dates back to around 4.5 million years ago, about the time when the solar system began.
The moon, which has virtually no atmosphere, is effectively a geological blank slate for scientists because it has not had the contact with water and air that has changed the Earth's surface.
'One reason to go back to the moon is to find out whether there is anything of value to be done there... If the answer is yes, you can do economically valuable things and use local resources,' said John Logsdon, a curator at Washington's National Air and Space Museum. -- AFP