posted on Jun, 25 2007 @ 01:50 PM
Bluebird... you have really been busy lately.. its coing to take forever to add this to the Bluebird Files at Pegasus (I am only current to page 25
)
But in the meantime I found something interesting from one of my favorite sources. The Department of Defense (Much better than NASA, considering they
are the top of the food chain
)
Subject: Water on the Moon....
Here is an excerpt from the briefing..
Q: What's the presumptive volume of it then, and how did you discern that?
A: As I mentioned, what we can tell from looking at the radar return is roughly the area that is covered by this. Assuming it reflects ice like ice on
Mercury -- making that assumption. That's been well looked at. Then in order to see this back scatter effect, this roadside reflector effect; it's
estimated that we have to see some number of wavelengths of our radar into the ice. In reviewing the paper, several of the reviewers posited we
probably need to see somewhere between 50 and 100 wavelengths. So our wavelength is about six inches. So at the thickest case, it's roughly 50
feet.
Q: That translates to what in volume?
A: We were very conservative in the press release, but if you take basically 100 square kilometers by roughly 50 feet, you get a volume of something
like a quarter of a cubic mile, I think it's on that order. It's a considerable amount, but it's not a huge glacier or anything like that.
Q: Can you compare that with something you know?
A: It's a lake. A small lake.
I have had this for awhile but did not want to post it until I had used it in the moon thread in regards to the Clementine Satellite
Now THAT is a LOT OF WATER 100 square kilometers 50 feet thick!!!
The other interesting (for this thread) thing mentioned was this....
"The other thing that happened -- this is somewhat of a technical term -- is the polarization changes. The spacecraft transmits a wave of a
certain polarization, ordinarily pure rock, would flip the polarization 180 degrees. Because ice is transparent, the wave bounces around, some of it
comes back with the same polarization. This effect has been observed on Mercury, on a number of places in the solar system where ice is known to
be, ..."
Okay there you have it folks, direct from the Pentagon itself...
Water on the Moon and on Mercury
Oh I guess you want the rest of the story huh? About Clementine returning and Starwars?
Oh alrighty then...
www.defenselink.mil...
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