Strange Lunar Brew, Paul Spudis “Just after it has been relegated to a “been there, done that” status, the Moon again shows us we have a lot to learn about its history, physical state and the potential value of its resources. We must take the initiative to learn more as the Moon is crucial in developing and advancing a sustainable space faring infrastructure.”

NASA Missions Uncover The Moon’s Buried Treasures “By understanding the processes and environments that determine where water ice will be, how water was delivered to the moon and its active water cycle, future mission planners might be better able to determine which locations will have easily-accessible water. The existence of mostly pure water ice could mean future human explorers won’t have to retrieve the water out of the soil in […]

NASA Hosts Media Telecon Featuring Results Of Moon Mission Impact “The Science journal has embargoed information until 2 p.m. EDT on Oct. 21. NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 21, to discuss additional findings from NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, missions. The results will be featured in six papers published in the […]

Water on the Moon!, opinion, WS Journal “But for scientists, the real money shot is the data pouring in from that impact. True, it was a risk. Yet the cost of the mission – $79 million – was a tiny price to pay for billions that might be shaved off the space program if the experiment succeeded. The gamble has paid off in spades. Sensors have detected 24 gallons of […]

NASA’s LCROSS Impacts Confirm Water in Lunar Crater “Preliminary data from NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater.” Keith’s note: My LCROSS “coverage” on Twitter this afternoon. #LCROSS Earlier SMD press conference on LRO stressed that Moon is “drier than driest desert on Earth”. Well, that is no longer true. #LCROSS the impact plume was as […]

Strange Brew at LCROSS’s Crash Site, Sky & Telescope “All this speculation is intriguing — but “Where’s the beef?” you might ask. Colaprete assures me that all the instruments in the shepherding spacecraft got great results, and that the delay in revealing the compositional analyses stems from having lots of spectral signatures to sort through and categorize. Colaprete says some of these findings will be made public in a couple […]

Keith’s note: Folks at Ames are taking the lack of a big LCROSS plume all in stride. This is from [email protected]: “I thought you might enjoy a little piece of promotional material created for an Ames Exchange Activity Fair (re: No Plume?!)” Click on image to enlarge.

This GeoEye-1 satellite image shows the LCROSS crater impact area on the Moon. This image was taken when the GeoEye-1 Earth-imaging satellite was on the dark side of the Earth over the central Pacific heading northward at a speed of 4 miles per second. The image was taken 47 seconds after Centaur’s impact. Resolution is about 230 meters. Larger images.

Blasting for lunar H20 on CNN.com – NASAwatch.com’s Keith Cowing talks about the rocket that crashed into the moon in search of water. Embedded video from CNN Video

Margaret Warner’s Full Interview With Keith Cowing of NASA Watch regarding LCROSS