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Les asked.........
Isn't that putting the cart before the horse Alex?
Surely there is no point in sending an extremely expensive mission to quantify the water present, before we know whether there is any water at all in the first place?
Why would they go to all the expense of planning mission like that when there isn't any evidence yet that it's required? This was a very cheap (in context) way to find out whether Di-Hydrogen Monoxide or Hydrogen Monoxide was present.
I would think given the propositions as to what it may be used for I feel something past the current mission could have been considered.
If however no propositions as to future use were on the table and it therefore a matter of simply determining if water is there then thinking about the future would be irrelevant and the mission ticked up to simply knowing more about the Moon.
I was not suggesting a lander over the impact mission but simply wondered if they have a plan based on a positive outcome.
alex
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