First Image Of Actual Moon Bombing Impact
Like Mark said, the much-anticipated Moon bombing fireworks have been a major letdown. The good news is that it happened: NASA has released the actual money shot, showing the impact flash. Just don’t expect a Ron Jeremy G22 bang.
Cabeus Crater Gallery
In the gallery you can also see the infrared sensor view of the tiny flash. According to NASA, the mission was a success, but I’m still a little bit suspicious that nobody was able to catch the 80km plume of gas and debris on video. Was everyone looking in the wrong direction? We will see what results this brings in the coming days. [NASA]
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Is there water on the moon? The answer will be either yes or no. If no then the next question will ask whether it can be created there. The world has the technology to look for it, but with future spacetime travel of greater proportions on the agenda, being able to create water anywhere would be a significant advantage.
Oh really…now we are tampering with the mother of fertility, the guider of the tides and the fertility cycles to look for water. Money wasted on this mission would be better spent on ways to conserve what we have. Although the impact does not look very large now…what if they do find water? What then? Impact is surely going to outweigh the benefits. Where is the logic of modern day man? These actions sicken me…
where is the live footage from any telescope anywhere in the world. Hawaii telescopes, japan, austrilia?? nobody has any video of the plume. nasa said within hours we’d have data. where is it? Maybe we found life. maybe it really didn’t happen. maybe this is all a hoax. how come all these years we never sent any thing to the moon. a laser “coke and smile” or some sponcer sending images back from moon surface. how come we have never seen from all these insane powerful telescopes images of the spent lunar hardware or the flag or foot prints or any thing on the moon?? show me anything. we can’t can we. did the plume find life???????
Haha the first guy that posted is inteligent the second sounds like a tree hugging hippy and the third is a conspirisist all though I like the life idea. But I’m sure nasa is not worried about telling people who are insignificant to them they are too busy looking at results etc. As far as why there are no videos yet, ever think it woul be hard to see a flake of dust fall on a golf ball??
And you my friend, the last one ~ what’s your agenda.
Seems to me that all three made valid points at least they had one. Seeing a two tonne nuclear explosion cannot be compared to a speck on a golf ball.
As far as the moon affecting the tides that is very true, if anything would disrupt the moon’s balance it will surely affect us.
Why must we, give importance to NASA. what makes them more significant than the rest of us? And why should they decide on our fate?
Money shot? You guys so ganked that from my twitter. Seriously though the impact was a real letdown. I’m glad I didn’t take NASA’s suggestion and hold an impact night, that would have sucked.
look, creation. I saw it compared to dynamite, not nuclear bombs..pull your head out your “you know what” because you clearly have an agenda also. as far as disrupting the moon, you make me lol inside, compare it to a flake of dust on a golf ball again. now get back to learning how to tie your shoe.
I do so wish folks would investigate the science behind this sort of thing before mouthing off about it not being cool looking (which misses the point), or some kind of example of ‘the evils of technology’.
This experiment was a comparatively cheap way to investigate the spectral lines of the makeup of the moon, allowing scientists to determine if we can viably set up human operations there. The reason we haven’t sent landers to the moon in many years is that it is really very far away, at the kinds of velocities we can achieve in manned space missions, which makes them horrendously expensive – if water is found, these can become much more viable in the future.
The moon is also really large, which is the reason that we couldn’t clearly see any plume – the energy of this impact is tiny compared to the mass and dimensions of the moon. We won’t be knocking it off it’s orbit, nor will we be polluting its environment.
It may seem obvious, but people forget that the scale of the solar system is enormous. I bet you guys believe the LHCwill kill us all, too…
Eddy, well done sir! You’re comment is in the perfect place haha!
My theory:
They were two parts to the satellite that crashed into the crater on the moon (obvious). The first was to create an impact to shoot a 6 mile tall plume of moon dust in to space. This was a weapon test. If you can fire something from space at 6,000 miles per hour into the earth the destruction would be astronomic. Think of it as a green bomb.
The second stage explores the plume for water and then searches the crater for water. If we can find enough usable water here, we have just found a major stepping stone in space exploration.
Just a thought, not necessarily a belief.
NASA and the US government are desperate because they tried to convince the world that they made it to the Moon. There is no proof of it. All we had these years is information that creates the illusion that it happened. NObody from any other country has the capability to do it (yet). If thay had, they would have gone there a few times by now.
This “impact” is another attempt to tell the world the US can send a missile to the moon with pin point accuracy. Of course, no clear proof. (telescopes can see the UNIVERSE, can’t see the moon?).. All this, just another lie.
Yes clearly you’re quite the seeker of truth Elton…
Are you serious?
First of all, this was a kinetic impact, not a nuclear explosion. It was more akin to firing a bullet at the moon than detonating a bomb on its surface. The rocket that impacted the moon had a mass of only 2 tonnes. The moon itself has a mass of about 70 billion billion tonnes. So in reality the impact was even smaller than a speck on a golf ball, relatively speaking.
Secondly, the moon is routinely impacted by asteroids and meteors that are much, MUCH larger than the LCROSS rocket, so why can’t we hit it with our own satellites to study it scientifically if it will have zero consequences? The moon doesn’t care that it’s being hit by rockets from Earth instead of rocks from space.
Thirdly the moon is not a mother of fertility or alien-infested space station. The bombing did also not break space law as kinetic weapons are not yet defined as WMDs, only nuclear, chemical and biological weapons are.
Please, if you don’t know anything about what is actually going on do some research before forming your opinion.
All you experts that think the moon does not care what happens to it have the same mentality as the idiots who exploded the first A-bomb in spite of the fact that it could have caused a chain reaction and destroyed the whole planet. Does no one realize who lives on the moon? The Man on the Moon of course! I hope we didn’t hit anywhere near his cave, or where ever he lives. And if we did we just might have killed him! EVER THINK OF THAT!
They have already found water on the moon, but it is not in the form of a lake or ocean or anything like that. It is almost dehydrated, if you can understand what I mean by it. It is spread out throughout the dust. In order to get one drtop you need to absorb the water from a 2 liter bottle full of moon dust. Its not far fetched to say that earth is going down hilll, its actually quite obvious. So really if the moon can hold water, its potential is endless. This is a great experiment that could have exponentially good results. So quit being dumb.