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Bombing the Moon for Water

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the make-go-boom dept.

s20451 writes "In 1998, NASA scientists deliberately crashed the Lunar Prospector into the Moon, in a failed attempt to detect traces of water allegedly hiding in deep craters at the lunar south pole. Now the BBC is reporting a new proposal to attack the lunar poles with "Bunker Buster" missiles to liberate a detectable amount of water. Called Polar Night, the mission is being proposed as part of the "Discovery" series of probes."

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  1. Re:Hey! by RocketRick · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Gauchito wrote:

    This abundant, unavailable hydrogen thing make me laugh, kind of like "water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink".

    OK, pet peeve time. If you're going to quote poetry, at least quote it correctly:


    Water, water, everywhere,
    And all the boards did shrink;
    Water, water, everywhere,
    Nor any drop to drink.

    From "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", by Samuel Taylor Coleridge


    - Rick "Pedant" Dickinson