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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. NASA is trying to say.. by anonymousNR · · Score: 5, Insightful

    .. that if our machine can identify life on Earth all by itself, then we can possibly send it somewhere and it might be able to detect another planet or moon which has Earth-like life.

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    -- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -- Aristotle
  3. Re:Beam me up Scotty!! by Mithyx · · Score: 5, Funny

    No. Women visiting slashdot is still a theory.