NASA to 'bomb' the moon

[Shadow]

Has a hyperactive five-year-old taken over as the director of NASA? It sure seems like it. On Friday morning, an unmanned spacecraft launched in June will crash into the moon's surface. On purpose.
Anyone not named Michael Bay is likely to ask why. Here's the answer: NASA wants to know if the twin impacts of the Lunar Crater Observation and its Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) will reveal any ice or water under the moon's surface.
Finding out shouldn't be an issue. When the twin crafts hit the lunar surface at around 6,000 mph, NASA expects "plumes of moon dust — perhaps full of ice — (to soar) 6.2 miles high above the moon's Cabeus crater."
Clearly, this is one of those cases where a picture is worth a thousand words. We're gonna go one better and show you a video from NASA. The animated clip shows what NASA expects to happen. The entire sequence looks a bit like one of Dr. Evil's satellites crashing into the Death Star. In other words, it's awesome. See it for yourself here (http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/93080?fp=1)

What do you guys think about this?

[The Spirit of Time]

The is going to fail!

[The Most Awesome Jared]

I doubt there's water on the moon, because of how it was created. But they had better show us vids.

[Shadow]

Just to keep you all updated:

But initial photos show that the moon didn't give the reaction to the double jabs that NASA expected.

And the public definitely didn't get the live explosive views they may have anticipated from the mission called LCROSS, short for Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite.

Screens got fuzz and no immediate pictures of the crash or the six-mile plume of lunar dust that the mission was supposed to kick up for scientists to study. The public, which followed the crashes on the Internet and at observatories, seemed puzzled.

"We saw a crater; we saw a flash, so something had to happen in between," Colaprete said. The crater was the aftermath of the crash and the flash was the impact itself.

The unexpected lack of pictures of a plume could be because the plume was at a different angle, hit slopes or wasn't high enough to show up, he said. Or the lunar soil could have compressed down and not tossed up as much dust as expected, he said.

Source (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_on_sc/us_sci_shoot_the_moon)

[The Most Awesome Jared]

:(.....

[Shadow]

Well, they still said it was helpful.
Don't me ask me how, though. I have absolutely no idea.
Anyone knows?

[The Spirit of Time]

They are saying that to cover their failed experiment.

[The Most Awesome Jared]

Agreed.

[Shadow]

They are saying that to cover their failed experiment.
Lol =D

Hmm... I still think they got some sort of conclusion/information from what they did.

[The Spirit of Time]

The conclusion is:
There is no water on the moon.

[Shadow]

Not really. The article doesn't say they didn't find water on the moon. It just stated:

"We saw a crater; we saw a flash, so something had to happen in between," Colaprete said. The crater was the aftermath of the crash and the flash was the impact itself.So they know that the craft crashed (but not necessarily into the right spot), but they don't know what happened after it did. They only know the aftermath of the explosion.
The experiment is all summed up in this diagram:
Craft crashed --> Flash --> Something unknown happened --> Crater.

I guess we have to wait until they figure out what happened...

[The Most Awesome Jared]

Which has nothing to do with water, therefor it is inconclusive at the moment.

[Shadow]

Which has nothing to do with water, therefor it is inconclusive at the moment.
Exactly.

[The Spirit of Time]

They won't be able to get any new thing, so they need to take a rest. If water exist on the Moon, we would at least found some ice falling or anything like that.

[Shadow]

If water exist on the Moon, we would at least found some ice falling or anything like that.
Not necessarily. Water may exist in the form of ice below the moon's surface.