Originally Posted by Sydney Morning Herald 3 March 2010
WASHINGTON: A US radar launched into orbit aboard an Indian spacecraft has detected craters filled with ice on the moon's north pole, NASA says.
The US space agency's Mini-SAR radar found more than 40 small craters ranging in diameter from 1.6 to 15 kilometres, each full of water ice.
''Although the total amount of ice depends on its thickness, it's estimated there could be at least 600 million tonnes of water ice,'' NASA said in a statement.
If they found the ice by simply looking into craters from a satellite, why did they recently have to crash a probe into the surface and have another probe fly through the dust to see if there was ice there?
If they found the ice by simply looking into craters from a satellite, why did they recently have to crash a probe into the surface and have another probe fly through the dust to see if there was ice there?
Frank
Because it's not 'just' H2O they were looking for/testing.
It may look like waterice, and emit vapour of water ice; but often you need to take a taste to work out whether it is flavoured water ice
Used to be 30,000 year old Greenland glacier ice was considered an expensive must-have for your lemonade. Shudder to think what a Slurpee made with this would cost.
