New Impact Point for LCROSS

New Impact Point for LCROSS

The Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) science team has decided that the spacecraft should impact a different crater on the Moon. Initially the Cabeus-A crater was selected, but now LCROSS will aim at Cabeus (proper). Additional analysis using data from four past and present lunar probes (LRO, Lunar Prospector, India’s Chandrayaan-1, Japan’s Kaguya) concluded that the new site has, with the greatest level of certainty, the highest hydrogen concentrations at the Moon’s South Pole. Impact is still set for October 9, 2009. For more on LRO and LCROSS, see our 1-pager Fact Sheet.

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