Mission Animation: NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS
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| Description | This video is an updated animation of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, mission. On Oct. 9, 2009, LCROSS intentionally impacted the lunar surface in Cabeus Crater at the Moon's South Pole. The data it collected confirmed the presence of useful materials in the soil at the bottom of a permanently shadowed crater that had not seen sunlight in billions of years. It found a considerable amount of water ice, raising the potential that this water could be a resource for deep space exploration. In the span of just two years, NASA’s Ames Research Center, in California’s Silicon Valley, developed this mission that reached out and touched the material making up the lunar surface. Its clever design involved two parts: a projectile that would slam into a crater to kick up a plume of debris and a spacecraft that would fly through the plume to identify what it was made of. For more information on the LCROSS mission visit: https://www.nasa.gov/ames/lcross. Video credit: |
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| Date | 2019-10-07 |
| Source | images.nasa.gov |