Is there water on the Moon?

NASA has made an attempt to answer this question once again by sending an empty rocket part that weighed as much as a small SUV crashing into the moon. The target was a crater that they thought might contain some deposits of water that they hoped they could analyze the results to determine if there really is water located there.

While the picture to the right is not a image of where they dropped the rocket part, it could have looked like any one of these hundreds of craters that you see in the picture.

I am always interested in what NASA is doing because I grew up with Space as being our last primary frontier for Man to conquer. It has always captured my imagination. If this particular experiment shows that there really are water deposits that we could take advantage of. This will help make our going back to the moon even more viable.

It is going to take several weeks for them to analyze the images they captured. Hopefully we will get some good news.

Water Found on the Moon

On a lighter note, Scientists have announced that there is water on the Moon. The problem is that it is in such minute amounts that we currently don’t have the technology to extract it. The greatest concentrations can be found at the Moon’s poles. The amount of water is about a quart per ton of soil and is like a film on the soil clumps .During last year’s Phoenix mission to Mars’ polar region, ice was discovered beneath the lander’s struts

What has NASA been doing for the 10 Years?

My friend Tom sent me this link from USA Today showing the evolution of the International Space Station over the last 9 years. This is an interesting flash video to watch even if you are only a little interested in Space, the next frontier!

The list on the right is active and gives you more information about each of the stages/units in the make-up of the International Space Station. I don’t know too many people who aren’t interested in what NASA is doing and what their next steps are. I think that it is amazing that they  have been able to coordinate with so many countries to develop what they have so far. It is going to be interesting to see what is going to happen in the next 9-10 years.