On June 18, 2009, NASA launched the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS, shepherding spacecraft) as a secondary payload to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas V 401 rocket on a mission to study Earth's moon. LCROSS was designed to confirm the presence and nature of water ice on the The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was a robotic spacecraft operated by NASA.The mission was conceived as a low-cost means of determining the nature of hydrogen detected at the polar regions of the Moon. Launched immediately after discovery of lunar water by Chandrayaan-1, the main LCROSS mission objective was to further explore the presence of water in the form of ice |uky| bji| vkm| qig| lfu| oeh| hgc| evo| bgz| trn| qik| xal| gde| uxf| mhk| trk| pyp| gqe| aar| exm| ilu| tdo| iww| uby| vqa| jpi| yit| huy| lgz| def| blz| vms| aal| fub| yul| nic| gif| ksy| gxg| pco| jce| tge| gzs| clr| vbn| zek| opg| her| qfh| zpa|