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LCROSS - Artist view

author: Nasa/Novapix

reference: e-son16-01671

Image Size 300 DPI: 17 * 17 cm

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.

Keywords for this photo:

2009 - ASTRONOMY - ATLAS 5 - COLLISION - ICE - ILLUSTRATION - IMPACT - MOON - SATELLITE - SOUTH POLE - SPACE - SPACECRAFT - SPACEPROBE - WATER -