http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/moon/ en-us Sat, 2 Jan 2010 01:07:36 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2419265/posts Building a home near a moon crater or a lunar sea may sound nice, but moon colonists might have a much better chance of survival if they just lived in a hole. That's the message sent by an international team of scientists who say they've discovered a protected lunar "lava tube" -- a deep, giant hole -- that might be well suited for a moon colony or a lunar base. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2419265/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 01:07:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418165/posts To my Children that are ready , that are calling on me even now , I AM and shall be your breakthrough !Merely shake off all these sacred cows , Fast the Earth completely , leave within your vessel only me , So that you may walk in my fullness as one with me , Take on my likeness in Spirit and Truth , Encourage others to walk as I do , For I AM the Resurrection , The Power , The Way , And it is in The Father's lap I desire you to stay , Do not look... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418165/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:21:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418134/posts SUCH IS MY LOVE FOR THOSE IN MY WILL (A NEW MOON )7th day \o/ Posted on Monday, December 07, 2009 9:45:06 PM The substantiality of my wealth is in abundance that exceeds paradise for truly where ever I AM in you this quotient exists in a udepleteable manner and such is my Grace for those in my will . So watch now as I dress my children of light as Job and reward them even now for the trials and tribulations , " Yeah " the pathway of fire they have surrendered to for my name sake . Did... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418134/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:01:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412642/posts WASHINGTON — Fearful that the White House might scale back manned space exploration, a bipartisan group of lawmakers slipped a provision into a massive government spending package last week that would force President Barack Obama to seek congressional approval for any changes to the ambitious Bush-era, back-to-the-moon program. Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412642/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:06:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2401243/posts It seems there really is water on the moon, a major discovery that, like every answer to a great question, trails thousands of unanswered questions in its wake. Let us review the facts, or, at least, the facts as I understand them from my in-depth academic perusal of the headline crawl across the bottom of the screen on CNN. The lunar craft Chandrayaan-1, launched by India in October 2008, revealed a small amount of water on the moon, concentrated at the lunar poles. The craft wasn't manned , so presumably some kind of instrument relayed the news. The Toronto Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2401243/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 00:18:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2394563/posts Water-on-moon discovery doesn't align with 'trends' Tuesday, November 24, 2009 3:18 AM By JOE BLUNDO A few days have passed since we learned that the moon has water, but I'm still not over it. Water on the moon! It's astounding, isn't it? At least a little? I checked Google Trends for Nov. 13, the day NASA made the announcement. "Water on the moon" finished 10th -- behind search terms such as "Tony Alamo," "Tia Mowery wedding pictures" and "Wal-Mart Black Friday." The next day, the topic didn't make the list. Granted, Google Trends -- a daily look at the most... The Columbus Dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2394563/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:08:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389476/posts On Oct. 9, NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite slammed into the moon's south polar region at 5,600 miles per hour. NASA had primed the public for what it promised would be a cosmic spectacular. Observers were eagerly expecting the "money shot"—a gigantic plume of debris emerging over the moon when the LCROSS probe and booster rocket crashed into the lunar surface. As the countdown began, people all over the world were glued to their TVs. Amateurs dusted off their telescopes, hoping to catch a glimpse of the once-in-a-lifetime event. Then the cameras picked up nothing. No explosion, no... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389476/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:37:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2388665/posts German amateur astronomer Bernhard Christ was in the right place at the right time — due to very careful planning and foresight — and captured this astonishing scene: [Click to embiggen.]That’s the International Space Station crossing the face of the Moon, what astronomers call a transit (like an eclipse, but when something small goes in front of something big). This image is actually a composite of several images taken in a row, with some sharpening to make it cleaner looking. The transit only lasted for 0.4 seconds, so Christ had to be on the ball to capture this. He used... DiscoveryMag http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2388665/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:01:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2387885/posts Given the discovery of water on the Moon , suddenly the economics of lunar travel have changed dramatically for the better. The existence of water makes human operations on the moon far more feasible in the near future given that local water can now be used to produce oxygen, drinking water, and rocket fuel. The Business Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2387885/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:16:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386170/posts Moon moister than thoughtDiscovery of water inside crater paints "a surprising new picture" By JOHN JOHNSON JR., Los Angeles Times First published in print: Saturday, November 14, 2009 Declaring "This is not your father's moon," National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists said Friday that last month's mission to punch a hole in the lunar surface found significant amounts of water in a permanently shadowed crater at the moon's south pole. "The moon is alive," declared Anthony Colaprete, the chief scientist for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission during a briefing at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.... Times Union http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386170/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:09:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385703/posts 'Significant Amount' of Water Found on Moon By Andrea ThompsonSenior Writerposted: 13 November 200912:16 p.m. ET It's official: There's water on the moon, and lots of it. NASA's LCROSS probe discovered beds of water ice at the lunar south pole when it impacted the moon last month, mission scientists announced today. The findings confirm suspicions announced previously, and in a big way. "Indeed, yes, we found water. And we didn't find just a little bit, we found a significant amount," Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator from NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. The LCROSS... Space.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385703/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:50:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2385693/posts WASHINGTON — A "significant amount" of frozen water has been found on the moon, the US space agency NASA said Friday, boosting hopes of eventually setting up a permanent lunar base. Preliminary data from a moon probe "indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater," NASA said. "The discovery opens a new chapter in our understanding of the moon," it added in a statement. AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2385693/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:44:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2385237/posts "There could be as much ice on the moon as in all of Lake Erie," When NASA's Lunar Crater Observing and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission crashed into Cabeus Crater on the moon's south pole, October 9th, the team did find water in the form of, "Ice as we know it," according to multiple sources within the agency. "It will change the way we think about the moon. It is something we want to share with the world." ABC Local http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2385237/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:33:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2381925/posts It would be fair to say that the crashy culmination of NASA's LCROSS mission on October 9th was a technical success but a public-relations fizzle. LCROSS on final approach LCROSS and its Centaur rocket prepare to crash into the Moon. NASA On the plus side, the engineering team for LCROSS (short for Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) delivered as promised, deftly driving a spent 2½-ton Centaur rocket into a target zone near the Moon's south pole only 2 miles (3½ km) across. Four minutes later, after flying through the debris cloud raised by the rocket's crash, an instrument-packed 600-kg... Sky and Telescope http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2381925/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 04:25:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2377642/posts Jim Krehbiel was up past midnight making a piece of art by layering maps and field notes onto photos he had taken of an ancient ritual site high on a cliff ledge in the desert Southwest. He looked at the image of the kiva and remembered how the ruins were nearly inaccessible. Krehbiel had to lower himself on a rope to reach them. Why, he wondered that night in the fall of 2007, would anyone build something so important in such a remote spot among the canyons and mesas? It was then that the chairman of Ohio Wesleyan University's art... THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2377642/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:13:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2377500/posts They say no one remembers No. 2, but the second manned lunar landing was memorable for a number of reasons. First, almost anyone familiar with the Apollo program remembers the launch. Apollo 12 was successfully launched in a rainstorm from Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 14th, 1969. As the Saturn V lifted from the launch pad, the familiar voice of Mission Commander Pete Conrad was heard on the air-to-ground loop playfully exclaiming, “That’s a LOVELY liftoff, that’s not bad at all!”, and indeed for a time it wasn’t. While normal at first, all hell broke loose about 30 seconds into... various http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2377500/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:57:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2367078/posts Click here to view the amazing video! Sir Isaac Newton would be amazed by this awesome video, showing Saturn moons causing gravitational waves as they orbit near its F Ring. These images can only be taken every 15 years, during Saturn's equinox. Thankfully, Cassini is there now. In the video you can see Prometheus (in the inner side) and Pandora (on the outer side), disturbing and smoothing the rings one after the other, which is why they are called shepherd moons. Things get even more spectacular in the Keeler gap, inside the A ring. There, Daphnis surfs the ring creating... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2367078/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:52:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366277/posts There was a plume after all. Observers on Earth had their doubts after LCROSS and its Centaur booster rocket hit the Moon on Friday, Oct. 9th. The twin lunar impacts failed to produce visible plumes of debris, prompting speculation that something had gone wrong. On the contrary, members of the LCROSS science team are now calling the experiment "a smashing success." Fifteen seconds after the Centaur hit the shadowy floor of crater Cabeus, the LCROSS spacecraft flying 600 km overhead took the following picture of a plume measuring 6 to 8 km wide: "There is a clear indication of a... SpaceWeather.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366277/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:02:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360125/posts Enlarge ImageBoom or bust? This near-infrared image of Cabeus crater was taken from Palomar Observatory after the LCROSS impact today. Credit: Palomar Observatory/Caltech NASA officials and scientists spent the better part of an hour in this morning's press conference patting themselves on the back. The LCROSS mission in search of lunar water was a great success, they said, all the while ignoring a very large elephant in the room: No one among the millions watching as a 2-ton hunk of metal slammed into the moon could see the much-ballyhooed spray of dust and debris that they had been told... ScienceNOW Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360125/posts#comment Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:32:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2359526/posts According to evolutionists, our moon is nearly as old as the Earth and, from the rate of unimpeded meteors hitting the moon's surface over billions of years, there should be many feet of lunar dust on the moon's surface. Pravda http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2359526/posts#comment Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:34:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358943/posts WASHINGTON —  Take that, moon! NASA bulldozed two spacecraft into the lunar south pole Friday morning in a search for hidden ice. Instruments confirm that a large empty rocket hull barreled into the moon at 7:31 a.m., followed 4 minutes later by a probe with cameras taking pictures of the first crash. 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... Foxnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358943/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2009 20:05:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2358770/posts With all the Obama award frenzy, is there any Real News? I know we bombed the moon. Did they shoot back yet? (Being, as I am, a resident of Barsoom, I figure we'll be next.) Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2358770/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2009 18:37:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358216/posts Live stream: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358216/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:44:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357503/posts NASA's Lunar Prospector first detected some hydrogen signatures in craters on the dark side of the moon in 1999. Ever since, researchers have been keen to confirm the presence of water on the moon. The Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) is tasked with crashing through the mists of speculation and conjecture and discover the truth. And you can watch all the action as it happens. LCROSS was launched on June 18th and executed a fly-by of the moon five days later before entering into a wide orbit. On Friday October 9th, the craft will start to make... Gizmag.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357503/posts#comment Thu, 8 Oct 2009 13:35:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357228/posts An enterprising robotic explorer will smash into the lunar frontier Friday in search of water ice hidden deep inside the darkest corners of the moon, spewing hundreds of thousands of pounds of dust high above the surface in a celestial event visible from Earth. Just four minutes will decide the outcome of three years of preparations, four months of space travel, and a $79 million investment put into the bold mission. Four minutes is the time that nine science instruments on the LCROSS probe will be able to directly study a cloud of dust thrown high above the moon by... Spaceflightnow.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357228/posts#comment Thu, 8 Oct 2009 01:50:05 GMT