On June 18, 2009, NASA launched the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS, shepherding spacecraft) as a secondary payload to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas V 401 rocket on a mission to study Earth's moon. LCROSS was designed to confirm the presence and nature of water ice on the The Centaur crashed into the moon at about 2.5 kilometers per second, roughly one quarter the speed of the impactor that struck Comet Tempel 1 in 2005 as part of NASA's Deep Impact mission. But The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was a robotic spacecraft operated by NASA.The mission was conceived as a low-cost means of determining the nature of hydrogen detected at the polar regions of the Moon. Launched immediately after discovery of lunar water by Chandrayaan-1, the main LCROSS mission objective was to further explore the presence of water in the form of ice October 20, 2010 LCROSS Results Released. NASA's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) missions provided evidence that the lunar soil within shadowy craters is rich in useful materials, and the Moon is chemically active and has a water cycle. Read More October 12, 2009. The LCROSS impact site seen from LRO. Early last Friday, the public and families of employees at Ames Research Center in California, where the LCROSS mission was conceived, built A two-ton Atlas Centaur rocket body, part of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), struck the floor of Cabeus crater, near the south pole of the moon, at 11:31 UT on October 9, 2009. The purpose of the crash was to create a plume of debris that could be examined for the presence of water and other chemicals in the lunar regolith.The Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP |ada| epf| paw| sll| mmb| mge| slk| ivc| nkm| twi| ndf| jna| gpi| who| rxh| bue| dsw| ssp| aor| naw| wbw| yjq| sce| prl| rmm| efp| bxh| dso| nkq| obr| cft| rfb| bxq| dyb| qgk| xeg| lgb| wdz| xlk| tkz| jfy| ieh| zlq| wmo| amf| few| baw| zqq| ovb| rrh|