Meteor/Meteorite News- LCROSS Debris Plume Photographed 17OCT09

LCROSS Debris Plume Photographed

LUNAR IMPACT PLUME: NASA has just released pictures of infrared flashes and a visible plume of debris produced by a Centaur booster rocket hitting the Moon on Oct. 9th. The images confirm that the LCROSS experiment was a success despite the fact that the impacts were visually unimpressive from Earth.

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for images of the plume and commentary from mission scientists.