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The Moon is just one big frozen Ice ball. Hooray

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iOrlando

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NASA has found a 'significant amount' of water on the moon, said Anthony Colaprete, principal investigator for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite


this is the most exciting news since 2 hours ago. Ice Fishing coming up...
 
william sire said:
How can this be? Ice requires oxygen. There is not oxygen on the moon or anywhere else in space as we are able to observe.
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is that a fact? ice requires oxygen?

i would assume the ice was underground....could there be oxygen there? i am not a chemist..and its somewhat difficult to fake one too...
 
iOrlando said:
is that a fact? ice requires oxygen?

i would assume the ice was underground....could there be oxygen there? i am not a chemist..and its somewhat difficult to fake one too...
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Ice is water and water is H2O which is hydrogen and oxygen.

But, that oxygen is different than the oxygen in our atmosphere that we breathe, which is O2.
 
iOrlando said:
NASA has found a 'significant amount' of water on the moon, said Anthony Colaprete, principal investigator for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite..
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There's a "significant amount" of water in my basement; I don't see NASA sending a billion dollar expedition there!
 
Yay, science!

How long before MegaCorp™ transports it, bottles it, and sells it in 355mL plastic bottles?
I guess we have until the Canadian freshwater supplies dry up.

Okay, I only meant that half sarcastically. Or was that half seriously?

BTW: How long before there is a thread about somebody spilling Moon Water on their MacBook Pro?
 
william sire said:
How can this be? Ice requires oxygen. There is not oxygen on the moon or anywhere else in space as we are able to observe.
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Please tell me you're joking. Water ice has been found on Mars as well as other planets and moons in the solar system.

http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Re-St/Solar-System-Water-in-the.html

IntheNet said:
There's a "significant amount" of water in my basement; I don't see NASA sending a billion dollar expedition there!
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Nope- you'll have to clean that up yourself. :rolleyes:
 
I wonder if this is from the latest project they did with Northrup Grumman. I can't remember the name right now. The one where they smashed a rocket into the side of the moon.

This is going to be good, They wanted this so that they can use the moon as a jump off point for future space flights. Considering a good majority of the gas is used up when the rocket/space shuttle is leaving the earth, this will be a good place to refuel.

Can't remember why the needed the water etc....... Don't have to time to google it... Something with mixing fuel etc... I think.
 
rhett7660 said:
I wonder if this is from the latest project they did with Northrup Grumman. I can't remember the name right now. The one where they smashed a rocket into the side of the moon.

This is going to be good, They wanted this so that they can use the moon as a jump off point for future space flights. Considering a good majority of the gas is used up when the rocket/space shuttle is leaving the earth, this will be a good place to refuel.

Can't remember why the needed the water etc....... Don't have to time to google it... Something with mixing fuel etc... I think.
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Yes- this is a result of that mission.
 
rhett7660 said:
I wonder if this is from the latest project they did with Northrup Grumman. I can't remember the name right now. The one where they smashed a rocket into the side of the moon.

This is going to be good, They wanted this so that they can use the moon as a jump off point for future space flights. Considering a good majority of the gas is used up when the rocket/space shuttle is leaving the earth, this will be a good place to refuel.

Can't remember why the needed the water etc....... Don't have to time to google it... Something with mixing fuel etc... I think.
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yes this is from the LACROSS (?) project in which they basically smashed a rocket into one of the oldest craters on the moon, one that probably hasn't seen the sun in eons (if ever). at least thats what i recall of the mission.

and this likely would be used to help refuel other missions.

very exciting news, changes a lot of ideas that we once had.
 
Water was created at some point in Earth's history. Also, the moon was created out of bits and pieces of the Earth at one point, according to a popular theory. Whether or not these to coincide or have anything to do with eachother, I don't know.

However, if such is the case that water was made on the Earth before the Moon was created, then it's a possibility that there is ice on the Moon because of this.


Remember kids, this is a speculation.
 
I think we found the home of the 2100 Winter X Games

and the 2100 Winter Olympics.....:p

and you think ice skating is boring enough.....wait until you see ice skating with 50% less gravity...........be prepared to see 1080 spins....:D jk
 
rhett7660 said:
I wonder if this is from the latest project they did with Northrup Grumman. I can't remember the name right now. The one where they smashed a rocket into the side of the moon.

This is going to be good, They wanted this so that they can use the moon as a jump off point for future space flights. Considering a good majority of the gas is used up when the rocket/space shuttle is leaving the earth, this will be a good place to refuel.

Can't remember why the needed the water etc....... Don't have to time to google it... Something with mixing fuel etc... I think.
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Well with some solar plants to power it, or nuclear once you have enough water melted to act as coolant. One could separate the Hydrogen and Oxygen to refill the tanks with and have a powerful rocket fuel. Plus the water could make creating a colony easier as you would not need a perfect bio-dome to maintain oxygen and water levels, though it was an awesome movie.
 
william sire said:
How can this be? Ice requires oxygen. There is not oxygen on the moon or anywhere else in space as we are able to observe.
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Heilage said:
Water was created at some point in Earth's history. Also, the moon was created out of bits and pieces of the Earth at one point ... if such is the case that water was made on the Earth before the Moon was created, then it's a possibility that there is ice on the Moon because of this.
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Hmm ... fighting ignorance with ignorance (not an insult - I'm personally ignorant of many things).

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/question/?id=56
 
Pluto not a planet. The moon not made of green cheese. Next thing you'll be telling me is Obama is not a socialist. :p
 
yg17 said:
So it's not made out of cheese? :eek:
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leekohler said:
Sorry to disappoint you. :)
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you're both kind of right


this is one of the most recent hi-def pictures from the Nasa website
ehowpizza-main_Full.jpg

and yes, it's frozen.
 
plinden said:
Hmm ... fighting ignorance with ignorance (not an insult - I'm personally ignorant of many things).

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/question/?id=56
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Look, I don't know a whole lot about this, which is why I was very general. My train of thought was this:

There's water on Earth -> The Moon is created by bits and pieces of the Earth -> Could this have something to do with eachother?

When it comes to science, I'm happy to be wrong. That's what science is, being proven wrong so we eventually find the correct answer. :)
 
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