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LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon

LCROSS Impact Finds Water on the Moon

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created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (31) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. Secrets the moon has been holding, for perhaps billions of years, are now being revealed to the delight of scientists ...


LCROSS Captures All Phases of Centaur Impact

LCROSS Captures All Phases of Centaur Impact

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created Oct 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was a smashing success, returning tantalizing data about the Centaur impact before the spacecraft itself impacted the surface ...


Moon crash: Public yawns, scientists celebrate (AP)

Moon crash: Public yawns, scientists celebrate

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created Oct 10, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (19) | comments 11

(AP) -- NASA's great lunar fireworks finale fizzled. After gearing up for the space agency's much-hyped mission to hurl two spacecraft into the moon, the public turned away from the sky Friday anything but ...


NASA to moon: Get ready because here we come (AP)

NASA probes hit moon twice (Update 2)

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created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 11

NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, created twin impacts on the moon's surface early Friday in a search for water ice. Scientists will analyze data from the spacecraft's instruments ...


Goddard Visualization Team Previews Lunar Impact

Goddard Visualization Team Previews Lunar Impact

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created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- At 7:30 a.m. EDT on October 9, a two-ton rocket body will slam into a crater near the moon's south pole. By studying the resulting plume of gas and dust, scientists hope this grand experiment ...


You can watch NASA give the moon a one-two punch (AP)

You can watch NASA give the moon a one-two punch

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created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 6

(AP) -- NASA will throw a one-two punch at the big old moon Friday and the whole world will have ringside seats for the lunar dust-up.


LCROSS Viewer's Guide

LCROSS Viewer's Guide

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created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Just imagine. A spaceship plunges out of the night sky, hits the ground and explodes. A plume of debris billows back into the heavens, leading your eye to a second ship in hot pursuit. Four minutes later, ...


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NASA's LCROSS Mission Changes Impact Crater

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created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission (LCROSS) based on new analysis of available lunar data, has shifted the target crater from Cabeus A to Cabeus (proper).


Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3

Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3

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created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Four months after the success of Apollo 11, NASA launched Apollo 12 in November 1969. Almost exactly 40 years later, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen the landing site.


Moonship Photographed by Backyard Astronomers

Moonship Photographed by Backyard Astronomers

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created Jul 10, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1

On June 29th, neighbors of Paul Mortfield in Ontario, Canada, heard "cheers of excitement" coming from the astronomer's house. What caused the commotion?


LRO and LCROSS satellites

NASA Details Plans for Lunar Exploration Robotic Missions

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created May 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's return to the moon will get a boost in June with the launch of two satellites that will return a wealth of data about Earth's nearest neighbor. On Thursday, the agency outlined the ...


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LCROSS Mission To Seek Water Ice on Moon Heads to Florida for Launch

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created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, is enroute from Northrop Grumman's facility in Redondo Beach, Calif., to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation ...