HTTP:: LCROSS Impact Takes Place Next Week
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Dr. Vincent Eke, from the Durham University, in the United Kingdom, is one of the experts that helped inform of NASA's decision to change the location at which it would crash its Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission. The spacecraft is scheduled to drop its spent Centaurus rocket stage first, and then it will be purposefully deorbited, and set on a course to the Cabeus crater, at the Moon's south pole. The crash will take place Friday, October 9. Eke believes that the mission will be successful in uncovering water ice. More than 350 tonnes of material will be ejected from the crater as the two instruments crash, predictions show. Telescopes around the world and in the Earth's orbit will point their cameras at the sites, and analyze the observable light signatures. “Water ice could be stable for billions of years on the Moon provided that it is cold enough,†Eke believes. Three separate spacecraft confirmed last month that H20 (water) coated t!
he particles that made up the lunar soil. “If ice is present in the permanently shaded lunar craters of the Moon then it could potentially provide a water source for the eventual establishment of a manned base on the Moon. Such a base could be used as a platform for exploration into the further reaches of our solar system,†Ek...
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