Lcross Will Crash To Search for Water on the Moon

Credit: CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Now that its flight has begun, a full array of observatories is standing by to take pictures of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (Lcross) when it slams into the bottom of a crater on the Moon’s south pole on Oct. 9. Lcross was lofted piggyback with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance...

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