Hoorah Science! Throwing $79mil worth of electronics at the moon!

[Ladios]

The best way to find out what something is made of is through an expensive gadget at it really hard. Hoorah for NASA doing just that.
Friday they will be launching a satillite at the moon to see if there is ice and water under the surface dust layers. I find this to be rather cool. Supposedly if you have a telescope aimed at the moon on friday you should be able to see it rather well.
I don't have any official links or anything, but still yay science!

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[Kerog]

SCIENCE AND OUTER-SPACE

[qevil]

they're going to bomb it first.

[Nightmare-Duckie]

[Mr. Bill]

Yay for science !!!!!!!

[Harm94]

What if the satillite is completely obliterated in the process?

[qevil]

is there going to be a website thats showing video feed of this?

[Nightmare-Duckie]

is there going to be a website thats showing video feed of this?

i would imagine NASA tv

[Solid]

I heard about this on the News, they're going to bomb the moon. I laughed so hard.

[Randomguy]

I had read about this last night. They're launching a "Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite" (otherwise known as LCROSS, acronyms are so much fun). They're going to launch two parts of the LCROSS at the moon at approximately 6,000 miles per hour, sending up 6.2 mile high plumes of moon dust. First it will drop the booster rocket, blasting a hole about 90 feet deep. After the LCROSS brown townyzes that plume, it will launch itself at the moon, creating a second 60 foot deep hole.

Isn't science fun?

[Sabbin]

What if the moon is completely obliterated in the process?

[Inv3rted]

You people really don't understand the significance of this. If they do find water on the moon, it opens up many possibilities for future space exploration. Water is a vital resource, and having a source far from Earth is important.

[Ladios]

Actually I do understand that. (However estimates say that only like a cubic mile would contain enough water to fill an 8oz glass.) One cool thing they would be able to do with that is help understand the history of the earth and moon in terms of comet impacts which could help that whole dinosaur thing as well.

Its just fun talking about it abstractly. :P

[Mr. Bill]

What if the moon is completely obliterated in the process?

Like so?

[Sandvich]

You people really don't understand the significance of this. If they do find water on the moon, it opens up many possibilities for future space exploration. Water is a vital resource, and having a source far from Earth is important.

What about oxygen? :x