Showing posts with label LCROSS Lunar impact mission. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LCROSS Lunar impact mission. Show all posts

18 October 2009

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.

Visit http://spaceweather.com
for images of the plume and commentary from mission scientists.

11 October 2009

Meteor/Meteorite News- LCROSS Impact Lunar Crater 10OCT09

LCROSS Impacts Lunar Crater in Search for Water Ice

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- 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. ...

For more information about the LCROSS mission, including images and
video, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/lcross

08 October 2009

LCROSS Lunar Impact Site Scheduled for 9OCT09- 8OCT

New Impact Site Selected for LCROSS


http://www.spaceflightnow.com/lcross/090928crater/


New impact site for LCROSS water-hunting mission
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
September 28, 2009

Officials have shifted the target for next week's smash into the moon by
the LCROSS lunar impactor mission after a new analysis showed ...