... chance to interview LCROSS principal investigator Anthony Colaprete about the latest findings released from the lunar impact of the spacecraft a year ago, and in addition to the article we posted here on Universe Today, I also did a podcast for the NASA Lunar Science Institute. If you would like to actually
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Top Stories China Plans Mars Mission – China has drawn up a technical plan for an independent Mars orbiter exploration project, space technology experts said. Based on research conducted by the China Academy of Space Technology, the plan envisions a launch date as early as 2013, Huang Jiangchuan, a scientist with the academy, was quoted
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... conclusione la missione NASA LCROSS (Lunar Crater Remote Observation and Sensing Satellite). L´ultimo stadio Centaur del lanciatore Atlas V fu stato fatto impattare intenzionalmente all'interno del cratere Cabeus, con l'idea di far emergere detriti dal fondo del cratere ed analizzarli.(Immagine, credit NASA)Lo scontro è
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LCROSS was unusual mission, in that it relied on an impact to be able to study a planetary body. Not only was the mission unusual, but so was the ejecta plume produced by the slamming a spent Centaur rocket booster into the Moon. A normal impact throws debris out more than up, like an inverted
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... ejecta. The shepherding LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) spacecraft followed close on the impactor´s heels, monitoring the resulting ejecta cloud to see what materials could be found inside
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