NASA Confirms Water on Moon - Exciting News!

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The discussion centers around the confirmation of water on the moon by NASA, comparing it to previous findings by the Indian Chandrayaan-1 mission. Participants explore the implications of these discoveries, the significance of NASA's confirmation, and potential future applications related to lunar water.

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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants express excitement about NASA's confirmation of water on the moon.
  • Others point out that the Indian Chandrayaan-1 mission had previously detected water, questioning the novelty of NASA's findings.
  • There is a suggestion that NASA's findings may be considered more significant or "real" compared to those of Chandrayaan-1.
  • Participants discuss the quantity of water detected by both missions, with Chandrayaan-1 reportedly finding a few hundred milliliters over a large area, while NASA's LCROSS mission ejected 100 kg of water.
  • Some participants propose ideas for future applications, such as low gravity electrolysis and other concepts related to lunar water.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express differing views on the significance of NASA's findings compared to those of Chandrayaan-1, indicating a lack of consensus on which discovery holds more weight. The discussion remains unresolved regarding the implications of these findings.

Contextual Notes

There are unresolved assumptions regarding the definitions of "real" in the context of scientific findings and the implications of the quantities of water detected by each mission.

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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 what 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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