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LCROSS

Herschel Spacecraft Won’t “Bomb” the Moon, But GRAIL Will

December 11, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Artist concept of Ebb and Flow, the two GRAIL spacecraft in orbit of the Moon. Credit: NASA The Herschel space telescope is slated to be decommissioned next March as the observatory’s supply of cryogenic helium will be depleted. One idea for [...]

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LCROSS Mission

September 12, 2011

LCROSS stands for Lunar Crater Observations Sensing Satellite. The mission of the LCROSS satellite is a satellite launched in conjunction with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in June 2009. The purpose of the satellite was to verify evidence found in 1999 that Lunar Surface had water. This would be a major discovery as the existence of [...]

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Podcast: More From Tony Colaprete on LCROSS

October 28, 2010

I had the chance to interview LCROSS principal investigator Anthony Colaprete about the latest findings released from the lunar impact of the spacecraft a year ago, and in addition to the article we posted here on Universe Today, I also did a podcast for the NASA Lunar Science Institute. If you would like to actually [...]

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Understanding the Unusual LCROSS Ejecta Plume

October 21, 2010

LCROSS was an unusual mission, in that it relied on an impact in order to study a planetary body. Not only was the mission unusual, but so was the ejecta plume produced by slamming a hollow Centaur rocket booster into the Moon. “A normal impact with a solid impactor throws debris out more than up, [...]

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Water on the Moon and Much, Much More: Latest LCROSS Results

October 21, 2010

A year ago, NASA successfully slammed a spent Centaur rocket into Cabeus Crater, a permanently shadowed region at the lunar South Pole. The “shepherding” LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) spacecraft followed close on the impactor’s heels, monitoring the resulting ejecta cloud to see what materials could be found inside this dark, unstudied region [...]

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