NASA's LCROSS Spacecraft Discovers Life On Earth 171
Matt_dk writes "On Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009, the LCROSS spacecraft successfully completed its first Earth-look calibration of its science payload. 'The Earth-look was very successful' said Tony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist. 'The instruments are all healthy and the science teams was able to collect additional data that will help refine our calibrations of the instruments.' During the Earth observations, the spacecraft's spectrometers were able to detect the signatures of the Earth's water, ozone, methane, oxygen, carbon dioxide and possibly vegetation."
Calibrating with Earth (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:What gets me.... (Score:5, Interesting)
been done before (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Meanwhile, SETI... (Score:3, Interesting)
I know you're joking, but there -have- been positives from SETI that actually came from Earth, so... It has.
Re:What gets me.... (Score:5, Interesting)
They just got a license to use this technology...
Last summer the West Virginia State Police allowed ORINCON to test the ability of hyperspectral optical technology to locate crops of marijuana. Given the success of that test, ORINCON has been invited to participate in this summer's interdiction effort to further validate the technology and demonstrate a more advanced detection unit.
http://cannabisnews.com/news/5/thread5978.shtml [cannabisnews.com]
Re:Pre-empting the obvious (Score:2, Interesting)
Personally I don't think anyone questioned the QA value of pointing the science instruments at the earth to calibrate them.
Trolls aside, Captain Obvious, what DID you expect?
Stunned-to-silence wonderment?