Nasa Crashing into the moon.. ?? twice?

**shadow** · 10-09-2009, 11:49 AM

Originally Posted by mazdaman

tried that link, but it only downloads a home page, no images appear!!!

the mazdaman.

I guess you need macromedia flash player to show video.

**Morgan** · 10-09-2009, 05:08 PM

i posted a thread on this! lol oh well.
ANYWAYS, they lost signal, but before it did they got a temperature reading. I watched it live on the Nasa channel this morning.

**PlanB** · 10-09-2009, 05:58 PM

Why is our space program several steps back frome where it was in the 50-70's they landed a man on the moon. Now we throw things at it and hope it makes a splash... Retarded.

**shadow** · 10-10-2009, 03:36 AM

the problem is money. They simply don't have enough money to fund big projects like manned Moon landings. After I did the calculation (post #9) that became even more clear

**ObedientBeast** · 10-10-2009, 09:42 AM

Hi All,

On Friday morning, I had my Sony 35x on full zoom at a half Moon and saw nothing.

It was rather anti-climactic, but after I got over that, I asked my self why did it not produce ejecta.

The only thing that made sence to me was that it must have struck the Lunar version of a thick "Mud Puddle".

Now I read today that, the readings we did get, indicate a high concentration of sodium(salt).

So now it looks like there could be a muddy "Salt Sea" on Luna's south pole.

Any thoughts on that?

The Watcher

**shadow** · 10-10-2009, 10:35 AM

I heard that too, yesterday but unfortunately I missed some of what they said. Did they say sodium or sodium compounds ? Because if it was pure sodium that would be really strange since it is a base metal (i.e. oxidizes/ corrodes relatively easily). You know more about that, OB ?

**ObedientBeast** · 10-10-2009, 01:46 PM

shadow,

I have scanned all the available data, and that type of info is yet to be discearned.

I posted here before that I thought the "Moon", in our current "Magnetic Spacial Field", is like an open circuit that will close when we cross through the "Dark Center". Meaning that after Dec. 2012, "Luna" will become one with the Earth again.

Could a sodium compound at the south pole indicate that some of Earths Ocean remains on Luna, and verify my theory?

The Beast

**shadow** · 10-10-2009, 02:24 PM

thanks for checking the info OB, I'll try to obtain more details, too.

It's said that the Moon was origally created by the impact of an large asteroid onto Earth.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...oonimpact.html

Therefore the sodium could possibly indicate that some of Earth's early water ''reservoirs'' are now on the Moon. In this case it would be a sodium compound, i.e. NaCl or sea salt.

**Vultyrex** · 10-10-2009, 02:25 PM

Well, the moon was made from earth. Sodium doesn't really surprise me. Too me, nothing happen, thus waste of money smashing into the moon.

**shadow** · 10-10-2009, 02:40 PM

here's something ''strange'':

Originally Posted by NASA

Other observatories reported capturing both impacts. The data will be shared with the LCROSS science team for analysis. The LCROSS team expects it to take several weeks of analysis before it can make a definitive assessment of the presence or absence of water ice.

[...]

The images and video collected by the amateur astronomer community and the public also will be used to enhance our knowledge about the moon.

source:http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/new.../09-131AR.html

hmm, I've been to a couple of amateur astronomer forums but none showed any images of the impact. I wonder who they are talking about ?