Thursday, October 8, 2009

LCROSS To Crash Into Moon Tomorrow

NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing (LCROSS) satellite will crash near the Moon's south pole early tomorrow morning.

The satellite is actually two modules. The first will crash into the moon at high speed, the second will fly through the ejected debris plume. The idea is to analyze the plume of ejecta for water. Well ice actually.

A live NASA TV Broadcast is planned for the LCROSS impacts starting at 6:15 a.m. EDT/3:15 a.m. PDT, Oct. 9, on NASA TV and www.nasa.gov/ntv.

Update: A video report from the Associated Press:

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