NASA Hopes to Find Moon Water … By Crashing Into the Moon!
NASA’s new LCross mission will test whether there’s water on the moon with a dramatic crash by the rocket’s upper stage to blast 200 tons of moon rock up 10 kilometers from a dark crater! (Where it can be measured by the rest of the space craft’s instruments…)
Even the moon’s hydrogen and oxygen deposits could be converted into air, water, and fuel — and NASA predicts “a number of different ways that we’ll be able to create water from whatever form of lunar hydrogen we find” on the moon. (Recent missions have already confirmed the presence of oxygen in moon rocks, while the sun delivers a constant stream of hydrogen…)
Carrying water to the moon costs $100,000 a kilogram, so these experiments could be the crucial step to getting more people on the moon….
