LCROSS Science Briefing November 13th 2009

NASA news conference about early science results from its successful moon impacting mission, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS. The satellite gained worldwide attention when it plunged into a crater near the moon's south pole on Oct. 9. The briefing was held on November 13th 2009 at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.

The panelists are:
- Doug Cooke, associate administrator, Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington
- Michael Wargo, chief lunar scientist for Exploration Systems at NASA Headquarters
- Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator from Ames
- Greg Delory, senior fellow, Space Sciences Laboratory and Center for Integrative Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• LCROSS
• NASA
• Ames
• Science
• briefing

[matttherecluse]

This is exciting stuff.

[lucidcafe]

What they are NOT saying is the most exciting of all. The other stuff besides water they refer to on those spectrographs ...probably other volatiles (nitrogen, carbon dioxide, ammonia, methane) and who knows what other minerals. There's treasure in them there hills. Very exciting stuff.

[happinesson]

a long summary report of NASA..it's tiresome

[Quilbo]

@richcap1 perfect explaination. I have to tell this excact thing everyday to all those retards

[richcap1]

No moron, these are the idiots who have made this Country the most advanced in the world and have given you an opportunity to make a stupid comment electronically that can be r3ad instantaneously around the world.

[pinkfloyd666]

you're absolutely ridiculous.

this is very interesting exciting stuff, keep up the good work!