LCROSS taps water on the Moon
Posted in Current Events, General on November 18th, 2009 by Peter LipscombLast week, the LCROSS team announced preliminary findings. You may recall that on October 9th, the LCROSS mission guided a spent Centaur rocket stage and its shepherding craft to dual impacts at crater Cabeus near the Moon’s south pole. The impeding strikes grabbed headlines and spawned observing parties at science centers and planetariums. Anticipation ran high as impact time neared, but many were crestfallen as expectations of a visible debris plume were met by an unchanged vista at the target crater.
