February 4th, 2012
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Posts Tagged ‘LCROSS’

Dani Weigand

NASA discovers water on the moon

Just five weeks after the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) impacted the moon in the search for water, NASA scientists have announced the discovery of water on the moon.
On Oct. 9, 2009, the LCROSS Centaur upper stage rocket impacted the moon in the permanently shadowed region of the Cabeus crater near the south [...]

Mike Murray

Crashing into the moon!

It might sound like the latest disaster movie, but it’s for real.  No, the moon isn’t going to crack apart (like in the movie “The Time Machine.”).  It’s a booster rocket and a space probe that will impact the lunar surface near its south pole on Friday morning, October 9 in search of a precious [...]

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