{"id":190559,"date":"2009-11-14T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/14\/we-can-have-scotch-and-water-on-the-moon\/"},"modified":"2009-11-14T06:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T11:50:00","slug":"we-can-have-scotch-and-water-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/14\/we-can-have-scotch-and-water-on-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"We Can Have Scotch and Water on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> LCROSS<\/p>\n

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Image of Plume at +20 after impact<\/p>\n

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Near-infrared spectrometer data. Yellow areas indicate the water absorption bands<\/p>\n

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Data from the ultraviolet\/visible spectrometer <\/span><\/div>\n

And we only need to bring the Scotch, because the LCROSS impact data indicates water on moon<\/a>, and not just water on the moon, but lots<\/span> of water on the moon.<\/p>\n

It appears that we are talking gallons of water in an area the size of a football field, which is by earth standards pretty f$#@ing dry, but is actually enough to be “mined” as a resource.<\/p>\n

This is interesting not just because it makes the possibility of a habitation there more interesting, but it also raises the question as to the source of the water.<\/p>\n

The usual suspects here are comets, the solar wind, or some hitherto unknown lunar process.<\/p>\n

Video of discussion after break.
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Click for full size LCROSS Image of Plume at +20 after impact Near-infrared spectrometer data. Yellow areas indicate the water absorption bands Data from the ultraviolet\/visible spectrometer And we only need to bring the Scotch, because the LCROSS impact data indicates water on moon, and not just water on the moon, but lots of water …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1036,1069,1037,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nasa","category-science","category-space","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}