NASA Briefs Preliminary Plume Findings from Moon Mission |
NASA Briefs Preliminary Plume Findings from Moon Mission |
Nov 10 2009, 09:26 PM
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Nov 13 2009, 11:46 PM
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Re: what else other than water was in the plume: Colaprete said that he compared the spectra to those from Centaurs and Trojans and found a lot of similarities. There is probably a kitchen sinkful of crud at the poles that has accumulated there through billions of years of comets and asteroids bringing volatiles in that move around the lunar surface & get trapped at the poles. Centaurs & Trojans include water, CO2, CH4, SO2, methanol, ethanol, more complex organics; some of these are certainly present; but which ones and at what abundances are going to take lots and lots of modeling and comparisons among instruments and there may not be a unique model solution. He showed a model solution that was a pretty good fit, just to show that they are capable of fitting spectra, but he declined to indicate which species were in that model.
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