AstroBebop » LCROSS http://www.astrobebop.com/blog Videos on space exploration, space tourism, robotics, astronomy, astrophotography, and aeronautics. Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:04:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 CNN: NASA discovered water on Moon LCROSS interview http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/2009/cnn-nasa-discovered-water-on-moon-lcross-interview/ http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/2009/cnn-nasa-discovered-water-on-moon-lcross-interview/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:49:28 +0000 flyingeraser http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/?p=487 Anthony Colaprete, the LCROSS principal investigator explains how NASA found water on Moon – CNN interview

]]> http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/2009/cnn-nasa-discovered-water-on-moon-lcross-interview/feed/ 0 Video explaining Moon bombing mission via LRO / LCROSS http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/2009/video-explaining-moon-bombing-mission-via-lro-lcross/ http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/2009/video-explaining-moon-bombing-mission-via-lro-lcross/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:29:39 +0000 flyingeraser http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/?p=453 Clark Planetarium in cooperation with NASA produced a short informative video regarding the LRO LCROSS mission to the moon.

Source: Clark Planetarium

]]> http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/2009/video-explaining-moon-bombing-mission-via-lro-lcross/feed/ 1 NASA’s LRO and LCROSS Missions: Lunar Impact – Oct. 9, 2009 http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/2009/nasas-lro-and-lcross-missions-lunar-impact-oct-9-2009/ http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/2009/nasas-lro-and-lcross-missions-lunar-impact-oct-9-2009/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:53:35 +0000 flyingeraser http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/?p=450 NASA, along with just about everyone else down here on Earth, is looking to see if there is water on the Moon.

]]> http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/2009/nasas-lro-and-lcross-missions-lunar-impact-oct-9-2009/feed/ 0 LCROSS: A First Step in the Return to the Moon http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/2009/lcross-a-first-step-in-the-return-to-the-moon/ http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/2009/lcross-a-first-step-in-the-return-to-the-moon/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:59:46 +0000 flyingeraser http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/?p=412 The mission objectives for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) include confirming the presence or absence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater at the Moons South Pole.

The identification of water is very important to the future of human activities on the Moon. LCROSS will excavate the permanently dark floor of one of the Moons polar craters with two heavy impactors in 2009 to test the theory that ancient ice lies buried there.

NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., is managing the mission, conducting mission operations, and has developed the payload instruments, while Northrop Grumman designed and built the spacecraft for this innovative mission.

For more information, please visit: www.nasa.gov/lcross

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