water found on moon
What found evidence of water on the moon?
So I found out that Luna 1 didn’t find evidence of water on the moon. So what did?
Apparently geologist researchers recently (2008) found evidence of water in rocks brought back by the Apollo missions. This evidence was almost certain.
Before that, the Lunar Prospector probe had used a gamma ray spectrometer and other spectroscopy methods and had found what seemed to be the signature of water on the moon. This was in 1998.
It is likely there is water on the moon. This belief and the search for water have been mostly motivated by the presence of “cold traps” on the moon, areas that remain out of the sunlight, and remain cold enough for water to remain solid and withstand the vacuum of space and avoid evaporation.
water found on moon
WATER FOUND ON THE MOON – HUMAN FLIGHT TO MARS NEXT?
Visible Camera Images from NASA LCROSS Sheperding spacecraft show ice in one of the lunar impact craters made by Centaur rocket collision with the moon earlier this year.
Experts believe this path the way for human travels to Mars within a decade or so.
NASA has discovered water on the moon.
On June 18th the satellite Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was sent from the earth.
On October 9th LCROSS sent the rocket part called Centaur targeted to crash at the dark side of the moon. LCROSS followed shortly after and did observations during 4 minutes before it also crashed into the moon.
The measurements made by LCROSS shows evidence of ice on the moon. This ice has the potential to be melted into water.
This ice is believed to come from astronomic collisions, probably the same way as water on earth became to exist on the earth.
Some experts speculate that this will enable humans to build bases on the moon and will ease the exploration of the space.
Friday November 13th it was announced by NASA that large quantities of ice had been discovered on the moon. The satellite LCROSS that had made an impact with the moon had proved ice in the gas cloud created as a result of the impact.
This can prove to be a significant break through for space research as it will expand human ability to make humans travel further into space. It will maybe be possible to build bases in space, further out than the existing International Space Station, beyond the moon actually.
The reasoning behind this argument is that today it is very demanding and expensive to freight water from the earth to the moon. The possibility to build bases will expand human potential for deep space travels.
Mars can be reached within a decade as travels from the Moon to Mars will take weeks instead of three years roundtrip from the earth.
The reason for this difference in travel time is the modest gravity on the Moon versus gravity on Earth.
If a space rocket is to be launched from the Earth, it demands large amounts of fuel to leave the atmosphere. If the rockets could be sent from the Moon, all this power can be used to increase the speed instead.
In order to achieve this, someone will need to take the first step – the massive amount of money it will take to create enough large bases on the Moon to construct spapce crafts on the moon itself.
This will demand large amount of resources, but can be a reality.
The results presented by NASA are preliminary and NASA underlines lots of work remain to create a complete overview of the research material collected by LCROSS satellite during its 4 minutes flight.
Experts believe the initial results are promising and constitute independent and solid evidence, and it supports previous research results made by Space researchers.
NASA has promised more exiting results from the LCROSS satellite in the near future.
They are yet not at the finish line and only announce that more promising discoveries have been made but not yet published..
About the Author
Stig-Arne Kristoffersen has a background as civil engineer and geoscientist. He has worked mainly within the oil and gas industry from the mid 1980s. He has written a few fictional novels as well as being the author of some professional litterature within oil and gas sector, he act as a writer to various web sites.
How many joules of energy are required to raise the water found on the moon by 1 degree celcius?
The water on the Moon is in the form of ice.
Ice has a specific heat of 2.1 J/g K, which means that you need 2.1 Joule to raise 1 gram of ice one degree Celsius in temperature.
Eureka! Water Found on the Moon
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