NASA said on Friday it is too early to tell if it detected water-ice on the moon as a result of the LCROSS mission that fired a rocket into a crater in the moon's south pole this morning. NASA said ...
NASA is asking all backyard astronomers to help track its Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) spacecraft, which is orbiting Earth in a big loop. Your reward in the end is to see it ...
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — Preliminary data from NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar ...
The lunar-crashing secondary payload that will share an Atlas 5 launcher with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, has entered comprehensive performance testing about a month ahead of schedule. That ...
LCROSS passed by the moon on Day 5 of our mission, way back on the morning of June 22. We could have impacted the moon back then, but our objective was to impart as much energy into our impact as ...