More than a month after the crash of the Centaur rocket and the LCROSS satellite on the moon, and the scientists were able to find in the data of the chest unequivocal evidence - there is water in a shadowy crater as far as the South Pole area
The argument that the moon is a completely dry desert does not hold water. At a press conference held by NASA on Friday, researchers revealed preliminary data from the crash of the LCROSS satellite on the moon, indicating that water exists in shadowy craters on the moon.
"We are very excited," said Anthony Colfrith, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator at NASA's Ames Space Center in California.
The LCROSS satellite and the rocket that launched it (and LRO) to the Moon did a double whammy in the Kebaus Crater near the Moon's south pole on October 9. The plume of shrapnel flying from the impact rose above the rim of the crater and glowed in the sunlight, and the rest moved further to the side.
"Many lines of evidence show the presence of water in both water vapor collected in the dust plume at high angles, and the emission screen created directly from the impact of the Centaur missile." Colfrith said. "Analysis of the concentration and distribution of water and the other components requires additional analytical work, but today it is safe to say that there is water in the Kabaus Crater."
Since the mission, the LCROSS team has analyzed the vast amount of data the spacecraft has collected. The team concentrated on data from the spacecraft's spectrometers, which provided most of the definitive information regarding the presence of water. Sprometers help identify the composition of substances by examining the light they emit or absorb.
The team examined images with signatures of water and other materials in the near-infrared frequencies, and compared them to images collected by the LCROSS spacecraft in the same frequency range. "We were only able to match the spectrum from the LCROSS data when we compared it to the spectrum of water," Colfrith said. "No other logical option we looked at was suitable. The possibility of contamination from the Centaur missile was also ruled out.
Additional confirmations for the theory came from emissions in the ultraviolet range that were attributed to hydroxides (OH), one of the products of the decomposition of a water molecule by sunlight. Data from other LCROSS instruments are analyzed in order to obtain additional clues about the condition and distribution of materials at the impact site. The LCROSS science team and their colleagues from around the world are now digging into the data to understand the entire impact event, from the flash to the creation of the crater. The goal is to understand the distribution of all materials within the soil at the landing site.
"The full understanding of the LCROSS data may take some time. The data is very rich." R. Colfrith. "Along with the water on Kabeaus, there are other interesting ingredient clues. The permanently shadowed regions of the moon are really cold traps, collecting and preserving matter for billions of years." Concluded.
For information on the NASA website
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Until they bring out a glass of water or even a test tube of water, I don't accept that it's water, maybe it's all the particles that are connected to water, but it's not the water we know from the tap.
Instead of importing water from Turkey, we will bring it from the moon
There is water there and also a base of extraterrestrials
To move all the ultra-Orthodox there, where God is closer
Elisaf - cashiers.... do not evaporate.
Same thing but in reverse 😉
Nonsense. False inventors to get huge budgets.
Maybe they found diamonds there in addition and don't find out
Maybe you'll say I'm just a conservative, but something here smells bad to me.
Yesterday, Google also changed its home page, and immediately returned it to normal.
If this is true, you don't seem to have realized how big this is going to be the discovery of the century, I'm serious
It bothers me, how could it be that they didn't find out before?
Today the news barely mentioned it as if they were trying to silence Zoot.
In my opinion, the science website would have done well if it had published its articles in a wiki format where any registered user can edit and proofread each article (with criticism from operators with blocking powers, of course). This will allow immediate proofreading by registered users and will prevent nonsense like the current article which has more spelling errors than the cubic meters of water found on the moon.
I would have enjoyed and been much more impressed by the article, if it hadn't had so many typos....no proofreading???
Too bad.
To 10
It's from the days of Lucky Luke's sign of the cowboy
It's like a sign Lucky Luke was here 🙂
LOL
#10 You are right
I see it too
A woman's face with a cowboy on it
mozar…
Something very strange in the enlarged picture...
If you look closely in the center of the shaded part there, you can see something that resembles a human head. I see the forehead, the eyes, and part of the nose and cheeks. If you look a little more to the left above, you can also see a head with a cowboy hat, and he even has a mustache!!!
Maybe even water is a code name for oil. Only this can explain what the Americans have to look for there on the moon.
For Einstein - let's say we want to establish a permanent base on the moon - if we depend on sending water every time from the moon it will be much more difficult to the point of impossible to maintain a base there with a size beyond the minimum. If there is water there that can be harvested on the spot - that is in addition to having a sufficient power source For a permanent settlement there, with solar energy and water it is also possible to set up maybe greenhouses for food and then a permanent settlement is possible. Of course you don't need to rush forward too much, but that is the direction
So find water... what's so noisy? It's not like there's any chance of life on the moon... they've already checked it and surveyed it from all sides (and oh, not that big) they found a block of ice, ok, but what's the excitement about? Even Google changed its logo for this... please send me a clear answer to the email I'm really interested in knowing... netanelam@gmail.com
Maybe it's the black gold but refined and not black like some kind of lunar gas
Lavner:
This is ice.
Liquid water cannot exist on the moon because it evaporates immediately.
That's why it's only in shady craters until. (That is, that they are always in the shade and since the moon has no air, there is darkness in them)
Is it really water on the surface of the ground? I mean in puddles, or small reeds? Or is it only water below the surface that is mixed with the sand, meaning some kind of lunar mud like that?
Thanks.
I assume that the caption that appears on the photo "Lithium burning inside a star..." is wrong and belongs to the article about the relationship
Between the inventions of lithium in the star and the lack of planets around it.
"computer language"??
Maybe it means the language of the crater...
Mabruk,
Now it remains to understand how exactly they are produced...