Saturday, November 14, 2009

NASA Finds Water on the Moon

WASHINGTON (AFP) – 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.

"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.

"It's very exciting, it is painting a new image of the moon," said Gregory Deloy, from the University of California hailing it as "an extraordinary discovery."

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Awesome, we found H2O on our biggest natural satellite! Now the new image of the moon in my head would be this, a Lunar Lagoon with 5/6th of Earth's gravity fun!

2 comments:

joyce said...

let's go :)

AA - now everyone can fly.

アンジェリーン said...

Wonder what they have been staring at all those years to only discover it now....