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LCROSS - Artist view

by

Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-son16-01671

Date

2009-05-23

LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite) should be launched in June 2009 with Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) payload aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. LCROSS will seek a definitive answer about the presence of water ice at the lunar south pole using the spent second stage Atlas Centaur rocket that will impact on the moon's surface.