It's either a jalopy or it's a hot rod. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was cobbled out of old satellite bits and recycled cast offs and stuff and was generally built out of NASA's attic. Either way it's the size of an SUV, it's going 5592 miles per hour and it's going to crash hard on October 9. On the Moon.
The crash in a lunar crater will throw up a plume six miles high. A second space craft will fly through the plume taking samples and looking for water ice. The mission has been called crude, violent and silly. It's also been called clever and scrappy.
A lunar water source is key to human habitation on the Moon.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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