NASA's LCROSS Impact with Moon's Cabeus Crater

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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 will confirm the presence of ice in permanently shadowed craters at the lunar poles.

The event is the highlight of NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission. The LCROSS spacecraft flies behind its empty upper stage, which is targeted to strike the floor of Cabeus crater. LCROSS will image the impact and provide direct measurements of the plume before it also plunges into the lunar surface. With LCROSS gone, further measurements of the cloud depend on ground-based observatories around the world.

This video zooms into a visualization of the moon shortly after the LCROSS impact. Blue arcs represent 50, 100 and 200 kilometer heights above the crash site.

Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• LCROSS
• NASA
• Cabeus
• Crater
• Visualization
• Impact
• Moon

[kmitchem4]

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[sydonabike]

@kmitchem4

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[sydonabike]

@kmitchem4

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[METZOMB09]

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[kmitchem4]

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[sydonabike]

@kmitchem4

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[kmitchem4]

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[METZOMB09]

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[kmitchem4]

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[METZOMB09]

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