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NASA's LCROSS Spacecraft Discovers Life On Earth

Posted by timothy on from the that-was-the-control-group dept.

Matt_dk writes "On Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009, the LCROSS spacecraft successfully completed its first Earth-look calibration of its science payload. 'The Earth-look was very successful' said Tony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist. 'The instruments are all healthy and the science teams was able to collect additional data that will help refine our calibrations of the instruments.' During the Earth observations, the spacecraft's spectrometers were able to detect the signatures of the Earth's water, ozone, methane, oxygen, carbon dioxide and possibly vegetation."

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  1. Colonization by Usually+Unlucky+ · · Score: 5, Funny

    We should mount a robotic mission to this place right away.

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  2. Re:Beam me up Scotty!! by Mithyx · · Score: 5, Funny

    No. Women visiting slashdot is still a theory.