New Delhi: Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organization have discovered a giant underground chamber on the moon, which they feel could be used as a base by astronauts on future manned missions to moon.2001 A Space Odyssey (Part 4-13)
An analysis by an instrument on Chandrayaan-1 revealed a 1.7-km long and 120-metre wide cave near the moon's equator that is in the Oceanus Procellarum area of the moon that could be a suitable 'base station' for future human missions.
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India Finds Giant Cave on Moon
The moderated temperature in this cave would be well suited for a moon base.
Where did the moon get water?
New research indicates the moon's water came from comets.
ScienceDaily (Jan. 12, 2011) — Researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, continue to chip away at the mysterious existence of water on the moon -- this time by discovering the origin of lunar water.
Larry Taylor, a distinguished professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, was the one last year to discover trace amounts of water on the moon. This discovery debunked beliefs held since the return of the first Apollo rocks that the moon was bone-dry.
Then, he discovered water was actually pretty abundant and ubiquitous -- enough so a human settlement on the moon is not unquestionable.
Now, Taylor and a team of researchers have determined the lunar water may have originated from comets smashing into the moon soon after it formed.
What caused the bulge on the far side of the moon?
The Lunar far side as seen by the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter. (Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)
Tidal forces early in the moon's history?
ScienceDaily (Nov. 12, 2010) — A bulge of elevated topography on the far side of the moon -- known as the lunar far side highlands -- has defied explanation for decades. But a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows that the highlands may be the result of tidal forces acting early in the moon's history when its solid outer crust floated on an ocean of liquid rock.
NASA: Billion gallons of water ice in the floor of one crator
The moon has water and plenty of it. Sadly, President Obama canceled all plans for NASA to return to the moon.
ABC News reported:
But after a year of analysis NASA today announced that its LCROSS lunar-impact probe mission found up to a billion gallons of water ice in the floor of a permanently-shadowed crater near the moon's south pole.
That's enough, said researchers, to fill 1,500 Olympic-size swimming pools, all from one crater.
Did NASA Cover Up Aliens Hiding Near Saturn?
Some are claiming NASA photoshoped a Cassini orbiter image of Saturn's moon Dione. The image can be seen clearly in the video embedded below. It does appear to be obviously altered, but why?
Alien conspiracy theorists are confident they've caught NASA in the act of covering up the fact that we are not alone in the universe.
A video posted on YouTube yesterday showed how an image of Saturn's moons Dione and Titan, taken by NASA's Cassini orbiter, had been digitally altered before being added to the space agency's Picture of the Day website.
In the video, "DominatorPS3" turned up the brightness levels on the photo to show that a "huge" object can be seen behind the smaller moon, Dione. Clearly visible are brush strokes that show how the rainbow aura of the object has been blacked out.
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