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- Path: sparky!uunet!news.claremont.edu!ucivax!ofa123!David.Anderman
- From: David.Anderman@ofa123.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Lunar ice
- X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
- Message-ID: <n1308t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 09:14:10
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- The Lunar Resources Data Purchase Act does not specify which frequncies in the
- spectra should be obtained by the government from private vendors; an
- interagency group will determine what we need to determine if there is water
- ice at the poles of the Moon.
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- However, video of the Moon is relatively expensive, and should be avoided if
- we are to afford a mission any time soon.
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- There are instruments that are much more effective in locating water ice than
- video, than at a much lower cost.
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- However, I believe that it is possible for a vendor to mount a mission to the
- Moon, return the specified data to the government and carry a video camera to
- return detailed lunar data for re-sale to virtual reality companies in the
- late 1990's - there be a market down the road for that stuff.
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- --- Maximus 2.01wb
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