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Re: Water on the Moon
I see there have been some changes here in the last few days! I like the new look with the stars etc. I get a problem when I use the search function, though, as the posts it returned seem to be blank even when I know there is text in them.
Here's the story from the NASA website.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/LCROSS_impact.html
It has a picture they say is of the plume - though you might think it was just a smear on the lens... The caption claims the plume was about 6-8km wide just 15 seconds after the crash, which sounds amazing to me. Nobody else seems to have seen it - I read on another report (can't find where) that it didn't go high enough to catch teh sunlight so earth-based observers had no chance of seeing it and it could only be photographed from the orbiter.
Just saw that that story has a link at the bottom to a page with lots more images of the impact.
Poor Moon. Or should I say "Luna". Is there a forum policy on this?
Non Sum wrote:NASA said it would be "days" before the crash results could be determined, but it's beginning to look like 'weeks.'
Here's the story from the NASA website.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/LCROSS_impact.html
It has a picture they say is of the plume - though you might think it was just a smear on the lens... The caption claims the plume was about 6-8km wide just 15 seconds after the crash, which sounds amazing to me. Nobody else seems to have seen it - I read on another report (can't find where) that it didn't go high enough to catch teh sunlight so earth-based observers had no chance of seeing it and it could only be photographed from the orbiter.
Just saw that that story has a link at the bottom to a page with lots more images of the impact.
Poor Moon. Or should I say "Luna". Is there a forum policy on this?
