NASA Confirms Water on Moon - Exciting News!

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NASA has confirmed the presence of water on the moon, generating excitement in the scientific community. While the Indian Chandrayaan-1 mission previously detected water, some participants argue that NASA's findings are more significant. The discussion highlights that Chandrayaan-1 found only a few hundred milliliters of water, while NASA's LCROSS mission released 100 kg of water, although it did not create a large plume. The conversation also touches on future possibilities, such as low gravity applications and the hypothetical presence of air on the moon. This confirmation marks a crucial step in lunar exploration and potential resource utilization.
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I was really excited to learn that NASA had confirmed water on the moon.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/prelim_water_results.html"
 
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Wasn't this scooped by the indian Chandrayaan-1 mission about a year ago ?
 


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

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


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. :smile:
 


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
 


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


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


It is too general to be applied yet.
 


Equate said:
Of course, but the NASA water is more "real". :wink:

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.
 
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ideasrule said:
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
 
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