LCROSS Lunar Impact |
LCROSS Lunar Impact |
Oct 9 2009, 02:19 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
T minus 9 hrs. 10 min till impact. NASA TV coverage begins @ 1015 GMT (0315 PDT). Link to coverage here.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Oct 13 2009, 05:23 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 204 Joined: 14-April 06 From: Seattle, WA Member No.: 745 |
Paul Spudis has an interesting take on the potential science at his Air & Space magazine blog:
LCROSS: Mission to HYPErspace |
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Oct 14 2009, 10:54 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1465 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Columbus OH USA Member No.: 13 |
Paul Spudis has an interesting take on the potential science at his Air & Space magazine blog: LCROSS: Mission to HYPErspace The LRO observations of the impact site show that the LCROSS team made a bullseye, right in the coldest part of the crater. Spudis' claim that a negative water result says nothing, and his trashing of the whole LCROSS concept sounds more like wishful thinking, i.e., we know the water is there somewhere, negative evidence to the contrary notwithstanding. So, rovers and "hoppers" are proposed as the next best hope, that should have been done in the first place, etc. If no water exists at the coldest part of a permanently-shadowed crater ("cold trap"), by what mechanism would it collect in any appreciable quantity elsewhere? -------------------- |
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Oct 14 2009, 11:19 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
He was playing devils advocate. If LCROSS turns out dry - then the logical conclusion is to find some other means to explain the Hydrogen reading. The illogical conclusion that may well play out from supporters of the ice hypothesis is that it hit the wrong place and is not a negative. Paul's take on LCROSS is one I share.
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