NASA Rocket to cause explosion on Moon to study Water

New York: History will be created on Friday, as NASA is planning for a rocket crash on Moon's surface to study more about water. The explosion is expected to help NASA to find more details about the availability of water on Moon. The blast will be created near the moon's South Pole.

At 4.30 AM (US Time) on Friday, a spacecraft called LCROSS will send its 2-ton rocket crashing into the crater near Moon to raise a 6-mile-high cloud of rock and dust.

The cloud of debris will be analysed by instruments on LCROSS and it might shed further light on the availability of water on Moon. The telescope and spacecraft across the US will take images of the flash from the blast.

In my opinion it is not just a start,It is a historical start for finding water and its presence on the surface of Moon and also India's Chandrayan-1 helps in taking pictures of this explosion made by rocket crashed on the surface of moon.
So we can hope these all collectively provide us some extra understanding about Moon and it'll open the door to drive our study for another planet.

CT: 'Indian bookies fixed Pak-NZ match'

Pakistan Sports Minister Muhammad Ali Shah on Wednesday claimed that Indian bookies had fixed his country's semifinal match against New Zealand in the Champions Trophy and ensured that Pakistan lost the match.

Shah, who is also a member of the Pakistan cricket board's governing council, told Headlines Today on the phone: "Indian bookies influenced umpires in the Pakistan-New Zealand game. Every crucial decision in the match went against Pakistan."

"There is a lot of circumstantial evidence to back my claim. No Pakistani player was involved in match-fixing during the tournament," he said.

The allegations came a day after Jamshed Ahmed Dasti, Chairman of the National
Assembly Standing Committee on Sports, accused his country's team of throwing matches during the Champions Trophy.

Dasti, however, backtracked on Wednesday, saying: "I never said the Pakistani players indulged in any match-fixing against Australia or New Zealand. I have been misunderstood."

Dasti claimed he had merely wanted to say that some people called him up and expressed concern that Pakistan might have deliberately lost matches to Australia and New Zealand.

- With inputs from agencies