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Nasa Say,s 'Large amounts' of water on Moon

By: voiceofkashmir

Nasa's experiment last month to find water on the Moon was a major success, agency scientists have announced.   The agency smashed a rocket and probe into a large crater at the lunar south pole, hoping to kick up ice. Scientists who have studied the data now say instruments trained on the impact plume saw copious quantities of water ...

26 days ago

NASA Discovers Water on the Moon

By: WordSlinger

Anthony Colaprete, a principal project investigator at NASA's Ames Research Center said there is a significant amount of water on the moon. The discovery came from an analysis of data in which a NASA spacecraft crashed into the moon intentionally last month.  Significant water would make it easier to set up a base camp for ...

26 days ago

NASA finds water on moon

By: intellectual

WASHINGTON: NASA has announced that a 'significant quantity' of water ice has been found on the moon. The news comes just over one month after the LCROSS probe fired a CENTAUR missile-projectile at a lunar crater to survey for possible water reserves. The spectrographic analysis of the cloud of debris thrown up by the missile's impact ...

25 days ago

NASA says water found in moon crater

By: dustgeer

The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), the robot drone that famously crashed into the moon on the same day Barack Obama was announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize this year, has uncovered the strongest evidence yet of water on the moon.Twin impacts occurred at 11:31 UTC on October 9th, striking the crater Cabeus. At ...

25 days ago