NASA to make major announcement about the moon on Monday

[franky1]

what you will soon find inyour research is that they can actually measure substances below the surface.
yep satelites can actually see aquifers under the earths ground
speculators have already been using the tech to find gold/oil rich area's
ecologists have been looking at aquifer depletion over the last decade

this is why nasa said that the particles of h20 are not in any 'puddles' nor measures in square metres. but they found individual particles in cubic metres in measure that if drawn together is 12floz(under 360ml of volume) per cubic metre
if they were just talking about surface they would be suggesting metre square. not cubic

but anyways. the next hope is finding a process to 'frack' the area where they can crack the moonland and then using pressure of small amount of water to force the moons water particles to cohere to the mines source and accumilate.
like forcing particles to gasify, then turn to droplets to then turn to streams back to the mines main drill hole without losing anything to the moons atmosphere

they will be sending test drlils from now until 2022 and more before their next 'manned mission' in 2024. in the hope by the time they put peopl on the moon they would know forsure they can get to the water and acumilate it in a reasonable and efficient way for a viable mission and sustainability

elon will definetly make some good money being the taxi for these missions in the next 4 years

[Fortify]

It looks like water molecules will be the gold dust that humanity will use to jump around the universe in future. Combined with nuclear power the opportunities of finding more water in space will vastly increase the possibility for long distance travel in future. It's pretty fascinating stuff and makes me wonder if there will be other living organisms contained within this water - as it is one of the core and most basic ingredients for life.

[franky1]

It looks like water molecules will be the gold dust that humanity will use to jump around the universe in future. Combined with nuclear power the opportunities of finding more water in space will vastly increase the possibility for long distance travel in future. It's pretty fascinating stuff and makes me wonder if there will be other living organisms contained within this water - as it is one of the core and most basic ingredients for life.

water molecules is just a fuel. for the space cargo ships that ship the real gold and other precious minerals from other moons/planets/asteroids back to earth

they hope between 2030-2050 to have space mining for precious metals up and running with payload capacity of 150tonnes per trip. imagine it 150tonnes of gold entering the economy each time a space cargo ship re enters earths orbit in ~20 years

bye bye gold prices

[BADecker]

NASA could have known that there was water on the moon even before they landed a vehicle there, to search for water. After all, their rockets burn (oxygenize) hydrogen. The result is water. They could easily know that some of the rocket exhaust water landed on the moon.

[Spendulus]

what you will soon find inyour research is that they can actually measure substances below the surface.
yep satelites can actually see aquifers under the earths ground
speculators have already been using the tech to find gold/oil rich area's
ecologists have been looking at aquifer depletion over the last decadesions in the next 4 years

These particular findings are not with active sensors such as bistatic radar which does see some meters below the surface.

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they hope between 2030-2050 to have space mining for precious metals up and running with payload capacity of 150tonnes per trip. imagine it 150tonnes of gold entering the economy each time a space cargo ship re enters earths orbit in ~20 years

bye bye gold prices

gold aggregates on earth totally by sedimentary processes, eg action of water. It will not be found on the moon except as a small component of metal rich deposits.

[virasog]

NASA could have known that there was water on the moon even before they landed a vehicle there, to search for water. After all, their rockets burn (oxygenize) hydrogen. The result is water. They could easily know that some of the rocket exhaust water landed on the moon.

I think the NASA announcement on this was a disappointed. There was nothing much interesting or new that they created so much hype by doing a live stream. I thought they would revel something which might create some sort of interest or surprise but it was none of that sort of news.