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NASA is prospecting for ice-water on the moon. On October 9, it shot a space probe into a crater at 9,000 miles per hour. The impact kicked up a mile-high plume of dust, which was photographed for clues. NASA hopes it gleaned enough data from this one-off Old Faithful to tell if there's ice-water in the moon's pock marks and poles -- as has long been suspected, and not only by NASA. "We are blown away by the data returned," said Tony Colaprete, the mission's top scientist. If NASA's moon bombing turns up ice-water, another acronymic organization beginning in N will stand belatedly vindicated. The existence of lunar ice was, after all, the keystone of the NAZI cosmogony.

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