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Topic: US spacecraft crash into the Moon anti-climax (Read 2412 times)
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Tryfan915
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Nasa has crashed two unmanned spacecraft into the Moon in a bid to detect the presence of water-ice.
But no light flash was apparent in images broadcast on Nasa TV as an empty 2,200kg rocket stage slammed into Cabeus Crater at the Moon's south pole.
Another spacecraft carrying science instruments was set to analyse the huge debris cloud anticipated on impact.
Scientists expected some 350 metric tonnes of debris to be kicked up to altitudes of 10km (6.2 miles) or more.
The $79m (£49m; 53m euro) mission is called LCROSS (the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite).
But astronomers observing from ground telescopes were left puzzled by the anti-climax to their viewing efforts. Full story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8299118.stm |
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 There is an explanation for this, you know. |
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deezelboy
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Clearly much of the explosion would have been absorbed by the great big black monolith lurking in the crater.
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beckmen
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Probably crashed into a pocket of silly putty. That's where that shit comes from, you know...
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nasa wastes alot of money on these tests....................... and for what? water!
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Sebastian
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There's a little bit more to it than just water.  |
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Thedus
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I wouldn't say it's a epic fail... it's about par for course when it comes to NASA fails.
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ondemand
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There's a little bit more to it than just water. i know what their hopeing to find but they have been doing this for so many years and what? nothing! wait water!  |
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Half the time, the lunar surface is baked by sunlight. To find water, they needed to look in one of the polar craters where sunlight never reaches. That's why they hadn't found it before.
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"The experiment requires that you continue."
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baked by sunlight means there is no life on that planet! |
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baked by sunlight means there is no life on that planet! I bet there isn't, because it's not a planet. And they weren't looking for life in the first place, but simply water. |
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just for that sole purpose its a waste!
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Can this wait? I need to do some calibrations
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Why is it a waste?
It has long been believed that all of the lunar regolith, including the Lunar Mare (Maria) and the Highlands are Anhydrous (no OH- ions). If this mission finds Hydrous rock, like is found on earth then it is a huge step forward in Lunar Geology.
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It pains me to say this because I'm all for space exploration, but do we really want to pour millions upon millions into projects like this in recession times? Especially with the frequency of failures like this one.
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