a mission definitely answering questions

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phil — 6/19/2009 4:23:19 PM (archived)

I love cost effective, purposeful missions like this. Assuming it is able to achieve its goal, it will answer an important question regarding existance and extent of hypothethised lunar pole ice. The answer will seriously impact near term manned space policy.

With all our Mars missions, which of course I support, the only big question definitively answered has been, yes there is plentiful H2O under the surface.

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LRO is go and still going towards luna (5:32pm ET). - Marcia - 6/18/2009 9:45:57 PM
- a mission definitely answering questions - phil - 6/19/2009 4:23:19 PM
- I'm excited about this mission - Buck Galaxy - 6/19/2009 4:02:49 AM
  - re: I'm excited about this mission - gbaikie - 6/19/2009 4:24:07 AM
    - Meanwhile, the very last HDTV images from Kaguya - Socrates II - 6/19/2009 11:50:14 AM
      - NASA uses Goldstone to make best map of lunar south pole yet - Socrates II - 6/19/2009 12:12:52 PM
        
        re: NASA uses Goldstone to make best map of lunar south pole yet - gbaikie - 6/19/2009 3:31:22 PM
        
        Lunar south pole image from Lunar Orbiter 4 in 1967 - Socrates II - 6/19/2009 5:06:40 PM
        
        APOD image of LRO launch, plus useful links - Socrates II - 6/22/2009 1:21:16 PM
        
        The view from the rocket during launch - Socrates II - 6/23/2009 2:14:55 AM

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