LCROSS Lunar Impact

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 to assess whether water ice is present.

The satellite traveled 5.6 million miles during an historic 113-day mission that ended in the Cabeus crater, a permanently shadowed region near the moon's south pole. The spacecraft was launched June 18 as a companion mission to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

"The LCROSS science instruments worked exceedingly well and returned a wealth of data that will greatly improve our understanding of our closest celestial neighbor," said Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS principal investigator and project scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. "The team is excited to dive into data."

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[AcCeSsDeNiEd65]

Stewpit whore's echoing voice is farking irritating

[zzzIdividedbyzerozzz]

wow @ comments.... Your the best NASA, screw the haters!

[joyman4321]

now..MAKE IT GO BOOM!

[DuhyatheSecond]

They couldn't have put a camera on the part of the craft that didn't crash? I would love to see the actual impact.

[DuhyatheSecond]

@Pandamonia Polygraph tests are not accurate at all, so how would that help?

[thegreeensky]

wow... interesting....

[muhammadzahmad]

what can we actually get with this video?

[davoce2]

LCROSS: The Greater Impact Part 4 by da Voce

Cabeus is ground zero for a complex genetic conclave

An experimental ribosome cocktail or first Genesis wave

Like an infant’s tiny hammer coming down with a bash

Suddenly colonizing a planetoid in a cloud column splash

[davoce2]

LCROSS: The Greater Impact Part 3 by da Voce

Man will not be tricked into extraterrestrial existence

By accidental or purposed amino acid inborn presence

Scientific method adheres to accuracy and precision

True science replaces conjecture with observation

[davoce2]

LCROSS: The Greater Impact Part 2 by da Voce

Never making brash announcements of life potentials

In time he may find his sterile technique was imperfect

Discovering a nucleic precursor was only a sad defect

Looking for signs that he’s not alone in a vast cosmos

Making first contact with his own implanted microbes

Just one more probe man has injected into a new home

Taking with it some trace of a live or dead chromosome

[davoce2]

LCROSS: The Greater Impact Part 1 by da Voce

Like an infant’s tiny hammer coming down with a bash

Man makes an attempt to learn with his satellite crash

He went with good intentions planning only an impact

Gathering broad data about water and life, to be exact

He will safely identify all genomic false-positive signals

[walmartian]

good 4 nasa i hate that gay ass moon no one will miss it when they finally get rid of it