Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer launching Friday September 6th

[Zelong]

Another Satellite to Orbit the Moon, what is it their doing up there besides "Atmosphere and Dust Environment analyzing"  Other country's Japan, India etc.. have their satellites racing around so Why Another Probe and Not Sharing Data are they all just watching each other, watching each other(anal probing) 

Source: http://www.nasa.gov/content/lunar-atmosphere-and-dust-environment-explorer/

In an attempt to answer prevailing questions about our moon, NASA is making final preparations to launch a probe at 11:27 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va.

The small car-sized Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is a robotic mission that will orbit the moon to gather detailed information about the structure and composition of the thin lunar atmosphere and determine whether dust is being lofted into the lunar sky. A thorough understanding of these characteristics of our nearest celestial neighbor will help researchers understand other bodies in the solar system, such as large asteroids, Mercury, and the moons of outer planets.

Zelong.
(I've link picture as there seems to be no upload for pictures? Click attachments there is no upload there either.)

[Amaterasu]

Oh.  They're admitting to an atmosphere on the moon now?

Hmmmm. 

[ArMaP]

Oh.  They're admitting to an atmosphere on the moon now?

As far as I know they always have, it's a question of how much.

[Elvis Hendrix]

Atmosphere AND water!!! Dun dun dun. The cats outa the bag guys

[Amaterasu]

As far as I know they always have, it's a question of how much.

Not always, ArMaP.  I was taught that the moon had NO atmosphere when I was in school in the 60's/70's.

[ArMaP]

Not always, ArMaP.  I was taught that the moon had NO atmosphere when I was in school in the 60's/70's.

From what I have seen, it's common for schools in the US teaching things that are not quite correct.

[Freelancer]

Posted yesterday at http://www.space.com/22553-moon-water-mystery-source.html?

Moon Water Discovery Hints at Mystery Source Deep Underground

Evidence of water spotted on the moon's surface by a sharp-eyed spacecraft likely originated from an unknown source deep in the lunar interior, scientists say.

The find — made by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 probe — marks the first detection of such "magmatic water" from lunar orbit and confirms analyses performed recently on moon rocks brought to Earth by Apollo astronauts four decades ago, researchers said.

"Now that we have detected water that is likely from the interior of the moon, we can start to compare this water with other characteristics of the lunar surface," study lead author Rachel Klima, of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., said in a statement.

Perhaps next they will confirm the presence of water mists shooting up from within the moon itself


Argh Zelong beat me to this news article..

[Zelong]

All good Comments 

This whole statement is a contradiction in its self. Their trying to "determine whether dust is being lofted into the lunar sky" if this was the case there wouldn't be any Water on the Moon as it would of "lofted into the lunar sky" as well. This is higher ground that is certain.

I think if we change the word "Dust" to Helium 3 or a needed mineral it will make more sense.
  He-3 (Helium 3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3

Zelong.

[ArMaP]

This whole statement is a contradiction in its self. Their trying to "determine whether dust is being lofted into the lunar sky" if this was the case there wouldn't be any Water on the Moon as it would of "lofted into the lunar sky" as well. This is higher ground that is certain.

I think they are talking about something like this.

[zorgon]

Oh.  They're admitting to an atmosphere on the moon now?
Hmmmm.

LOL NASA has always said their was an atmosphere. The contention is HOW MUCH

But FYI

Go to THIS LINK...

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/02files/Moon_Atmosphere.html

Item #17 is a PAID AD...

17) Water in Atmosphere?

Click the link to see WHO paid for that addition

Also THIS ADDITION

21) Water Filtration Systems - Lessons Learned for Space


Get back to me when you figure it out

[zorgon]

Not always, ArMaP.  I was taught that the moon had NO atmosphere when I was in school in the 60's/70's.

Public Schools teach a great many things that are wrong but In 1856, Peter Andreas Hansen, one of the leading mathematical astronomers on the Continent told us there was an atmosphere on the Moon

[Amaterasu]

Thanks.  I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be "figur[ing]" out, though.

[starwarp2000]

Click the link to see WHO paid for that addition

Get back to me when you figure it out

Links: 17 & 21 paid for by the wonderful people at NASA > Education Office

[LSWONE]

Links: 17 & 21 paid for by the wonderful people at NASA > Education Office

This is popular site for some NASA Nerds. Many fans from Aerospace.

[A51Watcher]

Public Schools teach a great many things that are wrong but In 1856, Peter Andreas Hansen, one of the leading mathematical astronomers on the Continent told us there was an atmosphere on the Moon

And who was the first astronomer to tell us there were 'galloping volcanoes' on the moon?

Bonus round - How many since him reported the same thing?