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Oct. 16, 2009
Moon in Review
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| Last week, NASA crashed an old rocket booster and the LCROSS probe into the surface of the moon in search of water. Though he view from Earth was disappointing to many amateur astronomers, LCROSS officials said that they had obtained useful data from the experiment and were working to analyze it now. The lunar impact came just weeks after two other teams reported finding their own clues to the presence of water in the lunar soil, in the presence of hydroxyl signatures visible in parts of chemical spectra obtained from lunar observations. In this segment, we'll get a wrapup on the hunt for water on the moon and talk about what confirming the presence of water might mean for moon exploration attempts. |
Produced by Annette Heist, Senior Producer
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Paul Spudis
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Lunar and Planetary Institute
Blog: "Once and Future Moon" (Smithsonian's Air and Space magazine)
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