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LCROSS impacts the Moon's surface

Cape Canaveral, USA - To seek for water on our Satellite

NASA's LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) spacecraft today successfully impacted the Moon's surface, in the Cabeus crater (see AVIONEWS), at 4:31 am PDT (11:31 am GMT), after a 112-day mission to find water ice on the Moon that could serve as a resource for future lunar outposts. According to NASA, the debris cloud created by LCROSS' impact produced good telemetry and was recorded...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1110033
Rome, Italy, 10/09/2009 17:35
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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