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Moon water found, might also be trouble for the Giant Impactor theoryof Moon formation
The Moon water was discovered by three separate spacecraft. The Indian
Chandrayaan-1 was the one given the credit for the discovery, while the Deep Impact and Cassini probes were given the credit for the confirmation. Chandrayaan-1 was specifically looking for this signature, before it stopped working, so it looks like it completed this work. The Deep Impact comet impactor probe swung by the Moon on its way to comet Tempel 1, and detected the signature back then too. And prior to that the Cassini Saturn probe passed by the Moon too and detected it. It's kind of backwards, as the verifications came from probes that went beforehand, whereas the discovery came afterwards. CBC News - Technology & Science - Water traces found in moon's dirt "The water was spotted by spacecraft that either circled the moon or flew by. All three ships used the same type of instrument, which looked at the absorption of a specific wavelength of light that is the chemical signature of only two molecules: water and hydroxyl. Hydroxyl is one atom of hydrogen with one atom of oxygen, instead of the two hydrogen atoms in water." http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2...ter-probe.html The water seems to be widespread throughout the Moon, it's not just in shadowed Moon craters. The original Apollo astronauts brought back Moon rock, but they couldn't find significant amounts of water. Or at least they couldn't tell whether the water was from the Moon or Earth. This resulted in the current favoured theory of Moon formation: The Giant Impactor, which states an Mars-sized rock hit the Earth early on, and created the Moon. SPACE.com -- It's Official: Water Found on the Moon "Apollo turns up dry When Apollo astronauts returned from the moon 40 years ago, they brought back several samples of lunar rocks. The moon rocks were analyzed for signs of water bound to minerals present in the rocks; while trace amounts of water were detected, these were assumed to be contamination from Earth, because the containers the rocks came back in had leaked. "The isotopes of oxygen that exist on the moon are the same as those that exist on Earth, so it was difficult if not impossible to tell the difference between water from the moon and water from Earth," said Larry Taylor of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who is a member of one of the NASA-built instrument teams for India's Chandrayaan-1 satellite and has studied the moon since the Apollo missions." http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...discovery.html The widespread distribution of the water might be the start of a new theory of Moon formation, though no one is really saying this directly yet. Water Present Across The Moon's Surface, New Research Shows "Isaacson said the M3 results were a huge surprise. “There was no evidence that this was possible on such a broad scale,” he said. “This discovery turns a lot of the conventional thinking about the lunar surface on its head.”" http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0924093559.htm Yousuf Khan |
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Yousuf Khan wrote:
The Moon water was discovered by three separate spacecraft. The Indian Chandrayaan-1 was the one given the credit for the discovery, while the Deep Impact and Cassini probes were given the credit for the confirmation. Chandrayaan-1 was specifically looking for this signature, before it stopped working, so it looks like it completed this work. The Deep Impact comet impactor probe swung by the Moon on its way to comet Tempel 1, and detected the signature back then too. And prior to that the Cassini Saturn probe passed by the Moon too and detected it. It's kind of backwards, as the verifications came from probes that went beforehand, whereas the discovery came afterwards. CBC News - Technology & Science - Water traces found in moon's dirt "The water was spotted by spacecraft that either circled the moon or flew by. All three ships used the same type of instrument, which looked at the absorption of a specific wavelength of light that is the chemical signature of only two molecules: water and hydroxyl. Hydroxyl is one atom of hydrogen with one atom of oxygen, instead of the two hydrogen atoms in water." http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2...ter-probe.html The water seems to be widespread throughout the Moon, it's not just in shadowed Moon craters. The original Apollo astronauts brought back Moon rock, but they couldn't find significant amounts of water. Or at least they couldn't tell whether the water was from the Moon or Earth. This resulted in the current favoured theory of Moon formation: The Giant Impactor, which states an Mars-sized rock hit the Earth early on, and created the Moon. SPACE.com -- It's Official: Water Found on the Moon "Apollo turns up dry When Apollo astronauts returned from the moon 40 years ago, they brought back several samples of lunar rocks. The moon rocks were analyzed for signs of water bound to minerals present in the rocks; while trace amounts of water were detected, these were assumed to be contamination from Earth, because the containers the rocks came back in had leaked. "The isotopes of oxygen that exist on the moon are the same as those that exist on Earth, so it was difficult if not impossible to tell the difference between water from the moon and water from Earth," said Larry Taylor of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who is a member of one of the NASA-built instrument teams for India's Chandrayaan-1 satellite and has studied the moon since the Apollo missions." http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...discovery.html The widespread distribution of the water might be the start of a new theory of Moon formation, though no one is really saying this directly yet. Water Present Across The Moon's Surface, New Research Shows "Isaacson said the M3 results were a huge surprise. “There was no evidence that this was possible on such a broad scale,” he said. “This discovery turns a lot of the conventional thinking about the lunar surface on its head.”" http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0924093559.htm http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/09/24/moon.water/index.html "One ton of the moon's surface -- in which the water's ingredients are held -- could yield as much as 32 ounces, or one quart, of water, according to three reports from research teams who studied data from three spacecrafts." That is 2 lbs of water/2000 pounds of dirt in theory - and if the surface is like the volume. Want to bet your life on it? 55 gallons would require processing at 100% efficiency 110,000 lbs of regolith. That's silly. "Although that amount isn't large, said geological sciences professor Jack Mustard, the findings show "there are ways you could convert these amounts of water into higher amounts" that could support human activity." That's not even a lie. That's flat out stupid. -- Uncle Al http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/ (Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals) http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/lajos.htm#a2 |
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On Sep 24, 4:20*pm, Sam Wormley wrote:
Yousuf Khan wrote: The Moon water was discovered by three separate spacecraft. * *NO! NOT YET! Hydrogen with elongated bonds has been * *detected over the years with three independent probes. Heh-heh, that's a classical case of denial. :-) Yousuf Khan |
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On Sep 24, 1:14*pm, Yousuf Khan wrote:
The Moon water was discovered by three separate spacecraft. The Indian Chandrayaan-1 was the one given the credit for the discovery, while the Deep Impact and Cassini probes were given the credit for the confirmation. Chandrayaan-1 was specifically looking for this signature, before it stopped working, so it looks like it completed this work. The Deep Impact comet impactor probe swung by the Moon on its way to comet Tempel 1, and detected the signature back then too. And prior to that the Cassini Saturn probe passed by the Moon too and detected it. It's kind of backwards, as the verifications came from probes that went beforehand, whereas the discovery came afterwards. CBC News - Technology & Science - Water traces found in moon's dirt "The water was spotted by spacecraft that either circled the moon or flew by. All three ships used the same type of instrument, which looked at the absorption of a specific wavelength of light that is the chemical signature of only two molecules: water and hydroxyl. Hydroxyl is one atom of hydrogen with one atom of oxygen, instead of the two hydrogen atoms in water." http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2...ter-probe.html The water seems to be widespread throughout the Moon, it's not just in shadowed Moon craters. The original Apollo astronauts brought back Moon rock, but they couldn't find significant amounts of water. Or at least they couldn't tell whether the water was from the Moon or Earth. This resulted in the current favoured theory of Moon formation: The Giant Impactor, which states an Mars-sized rock hit the Earth early on, and created the Moon. SPACE.com -- It's Official: Water Found on the Moon "Apollo turns up dry When Apollo astronauts returned from the moon 40 years ago, they brought back several samples of lunar rocks. The moon rocks were analyzed for signs of water bound to minerals present in the rocks; while trace amounts of water were detected, these were assumed to be contamination from Earth, because the containers the rocks came back in had leaked. "The isotopes of oxygen that exist on the moon are the same as those that exist on Earth, so it was difficult if not impossible to tell the difference between water from the moon and water from Earth," said Larry Taylor of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who is a member of one of the NASA-built instrument teams for India's Chandrayaan-1 satellite and has studied the moon since the Apollo missions." http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...discovery.html The widespread distribution of the water might be the start of a new theory of Moon formation, though no one is really saying this directly yet. |
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In sci.astro message 7wQum.64597$la3.31983@attbi_s22, Thu, 24 Sep 2009
20:20:39, Sam Wormley posted: Yousuf Khan wrote: The Moon water was discovered by three separate spacecraft. NO! NOT YET! Hydrogen with elongated bonds has been detected over the years with three independent probes. Not very important. It's the protons that matter, since the Moon has plenty of oxides. Having them as lumps of H2O would be a convenience; otherwise, any form that bakes out as H20 will do reasonably well. -- (c) John Stockton, near London. Web URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/ - FAQish topics, acronyms, & links. Correct = 4-line sig. separator as above, a line precisely "-- " (SoRFC1036) Do not Mail News to me. Before a reply, quote with "" or " " (SoRFC1036) |
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Moon water found, might also be trouble for the Giant Impactortheoryof Moon formation
On Sep 24, 6:15*pm, Uncle Al wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/09/24/moon.water/index.html "One ton of the moon's surface -- in which the water's ingredients are held -- could yield as much as 32 ounces, or one quart, of water, according to three reports from research teams who studied data from three spacecrafts." That is 2 lbs of water/2000 pounds of dirt in theory - and if the surface is like the volume. *Want to bet your life on it? 55 gallons would require processing at 100% efficiency 110,000 lbs of regolith. That's silly. "Although that amount isn't large, said geological sciences professor Jack Mustard, the findings show "there are ways you could convert these amounts of water into higher amounts" that could support human activity." That's not even a lie. *That's flat out stupid. Now, that's the concentration that they can detect on the surface of the Moon. Who's to say if there isn't water on the surface of the Moon that there isn't water accumulated in higher concentrations much deeper down? Perhaps even underground lakes and rivers? Yousuf Khan |
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"YKhan" wrote in message ... On Sep 24, 6:15 pm, Uncle Al wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/09/24/moon.water/index.html "One ton of the moon's surface -- in which the water's ingredients are held -- could yield as much as 32 ounces, or one quart, of water, according to three reports from research teams who studied data from three spacecrafts." That is 2 lbs of water/2000 pounds of dirt in theory - and if the surface is like the volume. Want to bet your life on it? 55 gallons would require processing at 100% efficiency 110,000 lbs of regolith. That's silly. "Although that amount isn't large, said geological sciences professor Jack Mustard, the findings show "there are ways you could convert these amounts of water into higher amounts" that could support human activity." That's not even a lie. That's flat out stupid. Now, that's the concentration that they can detect on the surface of the Moon. Who's to say if there isn't water on the surface of the Moon that there isn't water accumulated in higher concentrations much deeper down? Perhaps even underground lakes and rivers? Yousuf Khan Rivers? Bwhahahahahahahaha! The water isn't liquid at lunar surface temperatures, idiot! Wouldn't you rather have a glacier fed by snowfall? |
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YKhan wrote:
On Sep 24, 6:15 pm, Uncle Al wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/09/24/moon.water/index.html "One ton of the moon's surface -- in which the water's ingredients are held -- could yield as much as 32 ounces, or one quart, of water, according to three reports from research teams who studied data from three spacecrafts." That is 2 lbs of water/2000 pounds of dirt in theory - and if the surface is like the volume. Want to bet your life on it? 55 gallons would require processing at 100% efficiency 110,000 lbs of regolith. That's silly. "Although that amount isn't large, said geological sciences professor Jack Mustard, the findings show "there are ways you could convert these amounts of water into higher amounts" that could support human activity." That's not even a lie. That's flat out stupid. Now, that's the concentration that they can detect on the surface of the Moon. Who's to say if there isn't water on the surface of the Moon that there isn't water accumulated in higher concentrations much deeper down? Perhaps even underground lakes and rivers? Look up the formation of the moon then rationalize water being anywhere. Meteoric or comet water will vaporize and be swept away by the solar wind in the low gravity. If the moon had any water at all the hot day side at 130 C would be cryogenically pumped by the cold night side at -230 C. It would be as obvious as NASA Official Truth. Ditto Mars, equator and poles. -- Uncle Al http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/ (Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals) http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/lajos.htm#a2 |
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On Sep 25, 5:44*pm, "Androcles" wrote:
Rivers? Bwhahahahahahahaha! The water isn't liquid at lunar surface temperatures, idiot! Wouldn't you rather have a glacier fed by snowfall? Underground rivers of ice rather than water might work. Ice would move slowly, literally at glacial pace. If it's happening underground, then it won't show up as movement patterns above ground. Yousuf Khan |
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Moon water found, might also be trouble for the Giant Impactortheoryof Moon formation
Androcles wrote:
And what is going to lift the ice the top of the crater rim so that it can slide down to the ice lake below? Kahn's mechanical pumps? Sunlight on the underground lake evaporating the ice to form clouds and fall as snow, all underground? The nuclear furnace at the centre of the Moon? It might work if your brain ever did. Tell us about the canals on Mars instead, Lowell believed in 'em. Well, you don't need underground nuclear furnaces when any given point on your surface faces the Sun for about half a month, and doesn't face the Sun at all for the rest of the month. That's bound to create a small temperature differential that may result in melting and refreezing. Of course it depends on how far down the ice is, the further down it is, the less the temperature differentials are going to be, thus making the process slower. Yousuf Khan |
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