LCROSS Has New Crater in Crosshairs for Impact
NASA announced on Monday that the LCROSS‘ hairs have picked a new target for its Oct. 9th impact: the larger Cabeus crater instead of Cabeus A. As you can see in the Google Moon image above, Cabeus is...
View Article"Moon Bombing" Plume Spotted; LCROSS Team "Blown Away" by Data
NASA has announced that an alternate camera from the LCROSS caught an image of the plume from NASA’s recent “moon bombing”—and that good data was returned from the mission: “We are blown away by the...
View ArticleLCROSS Impact Results–Water Was Found!
NASA has released the preliminary results from the LCROSS “moon bombing” impact, and the news is that water has indeed been found! “‘Multiple lines of evidence show water was present in both the high...
View ArticleOrbiting Atlas #2: Cabeus
For our second exploration of notable locations on the Moon, we look at the site of NASA’s famous “Moon Bombing” with its LCROSS craft… Cabeus A crater enveloped in deep shadow, about 80 miles north of...
View ArticleSilver Moon: Recent LCROSS Results Show Silver, Even More Water in Cabeus Crater
Recent results from NASA’s 2009 LCROSS mission (the famous “moon bombing”) have shown that the targeted crater continues to be full of surprises. The mission—in which NASA crashed a spent rocket stage...
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