Water on the Moon!

**Pattonias** · Nov13-09, 12:50 PM

I was really excited to learn that NASA had confirmed water on the moon.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LC...r_results.html

**mgb_phys** · Nov13-09, 12:55 PM

Wasn't this scooped by the indian Chandrayaan-1 mission about a year ago ?

**Equate** · Nov13-09, 01:00 PM

Originally Posted by mgb_phys

Wasn't this scooped by the indian Chandrayaan-1 mission about a year ago ?

Of course, but the NASA water is more "real".

**Pattonias** · Nov13-09, 01:02 PM

Interesting, I had never heard of that one. Well I guess that makes it slightly less awesome, but none the less now NASA knows there is water on the moon.

**mgb_phys** · Nov13-09, 01:22 PM

Chandrayaan-1 carried some Nasa instruments along with ESA ones.
it supposedly also only cost $80M, but that probably doesn't include the foreign instrument costs

**waht** · Nov13-09, 01:36 PM

It's time to apply for low gravity electrolysis patent.

**Pattonias** · Nov13-09, 01:39 PM

Way beyond that waht I'm looking at the low gravity Slip n' Slide.

**waht** · Nov13-09, 03:36 PM

It is too general to be applied yet.

**ideasrule** · Nov14-09, 03:22 AM

Originally Posted by Equate

Of course, but the NASA water is more "real".

The Indian spacecraft detected a few hundred mL's of water scattered around the area of a football field. LCROSS threw up 100 kg of water, and it didn't even make a particularly big plume.

**owenlove** · Nov17-09, 01:01 AM

Originally Posted by ideasrule

The Indian spacecraft detected a few hundred mL's of water scattered around the area of a football field. LCROSS threw up 100 kg of water, and it didn't even make a particularly big plume.

Yeah absolutely true.Anyways nice to know that so now how about the Air on moon.Imagine if it also comes true someday

**Pattonias** · Nov17-09, 08:58 AM

The next discovery will be that it is actually a very, very dusty Death Star.