Water on the Moon Confirmed by NASA
A “significant amount” of frozen water has been found on the moon, the US space agency said 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 79-million-dollar 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 neighbor for water.
One rocket slammed into the Cabeus crater, near the lunar southern pole, at around 5,600 miles (9,000 kilometers) per hour.
Even Google is Celebrating….
If you check Google.com now though, you’ll see that the search giant is celebrating something different: the discovery of water on the moon! NASA made the stunning announcement earlier today after its moon bombing mission successfully revealed water under the lunar surface. And now the Google logo depicts the bombing revealing water.
Water on the Moon Confirmed by NASA
n a good indication of just how important water is to us, some of the most exciting news from the Moon since the initial 1969 landing has revolved around research to determine whether or not it has water. Tantalizing hints have been accruing in recent years, and today NASA released the remarkable results of their most recent effort. According to Dr. Anthony Colaprete, chief scientist for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, along with other researchers at NASA, water vapor and ice were clearly detected on October 9th after NASA purposely crashed a rocket into a cold, dark crater near the Moon’s south pole.
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