Experts have long suspected that water was on Monday Confirmation came from the data provided NASA spacecraft deliberately crashed into Lunar crater last month churned."Yes, yes, we found the water. And we did not find it a little. We Found a significant amount," said Anthony Colaprete scientist result of the mission, held a white bucket of water stress.
The moon crash kicked at least 25 liter and directly what scientists could see plumes of impact, Colaprete said.
Some space policy experts say makes the moon for inspection attractive again. Would like an abundance of water make it easier to set up a camp basis for astronauts, drinking water supply and an important ingredient in rocket fuel."After the final proof that water is a substantial step forward in making the moon an interesting place to go," said George Washington University space policy scholar John Logsdon.
However, members said the blue-ribbon panel to review the plans for the future of NASA does not change the conclusion that the program needs more money or be near the embankment. The panel wants to NASA to look at the other possible targets, such as asteroids and Mars.
"These new results and reassure us great Sun funds, ... but the challenges continue the manned space program," Chris Chyba, a Princeton astrophysicist, are on the panel, said in email.
President George W. Bush had proposed more than 100 billion U.S. dollar plan to return astronauts to the moon, then on to Mars, with a test flight set a new missile early success of Barack Obama last Monday to nominated as Chairman of the special panel to look at the Lunar exploration program at all. The decision is now the White House, and NASA's Lunar plans on hold is just so far.
In connection with unmanned exploration, which had previously noted the presence mission in Cráitéir Lunar hydrogen near the poles of the moon, possible evidence of ice. In September, scientists reported finding small amounts of surface water in the soil on the whole Mon Mon
But it was on the mission of NASA Participation October 9 of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, LCROSS, provided stunning confirmation that announced Friday, the water in the form of ice and steam.
"In place of the dead and unchanging world would be really dynamic and very interesting," said Greg Delory the University of California, Berkeley, was not involved in the mission, led by the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif
The LCROSS spacecraft hit only on the presence on the moon and it is clear how much water is there throughout Monday
Mission in October two permanently shadowed part in crater near the south pole. First, the rocket hit an empty crater in Cabeus torso. Then, the last spacecraft recorded the live play before it crashed on the same site four minutes later.
While scientists were overjoyed with the abundance of data beamed back to earth, the mission was a public relations dud. Space enthusiasts stayed up all night to watch the spectacle that was the document about a huge plume trash.
NASA scientists had predicted the two effects could spit it in the light of dust miles. Instead, only one thousand images showed high-plume, and it did not appear that many amateur astronomers peering telescopes.
One month scientists busy analyzing data from the spacecraft spectrometers, instruments that could detect strong signals from the water molecules in the plume.
"There is evidence that water. Almost like he had a taste," said Peter Schultz, professor of geological sciences at Brown University and co-investigator on the LCROSS mission.
Was pleased Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who in 1969 made a historic Apollo 11 moonwalk with Neil Armstrong, with the latest findings, but still believes the U.S. should be colonize Mars.
"The people overreact to the news, saying:" Let the water Rush to the moon, ' "said Aildrin." It is not justifiable. "
Mission scientists said that it would be more time to tease other was what kicked dust on the moon.
AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein contributed to this report.
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