HTTP:: LCROSS Slams into the Moon on Friday
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Tomorrow, at 7:31 am EDT (1131 GMT), skywatchers and professional astronomers will be able to see for the first time how a spacecraft plunges to its fiery demise, as it slams into the Cabeus crater, at the Moon's south pole. According to the American space agency, a spent Centaurus rocket stage, attached to the Lunar CRater Observation Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) spacecraft, will hit the lunar surface first, followed, a few minutes later, at around 7:35 am EDT (1135 GMT), by the satellite itself. The probe will fly with all its instruments activated and pass straight through the plume of ash that the Centaurus stage will create, Space reports. Experts at NASA hope that the 5,216-pound (2,366-kilogram) rocket stage, which will impact Cabeus while traveling at about 5,600 miles per hour (9,010 kilometers per hour), will lift about 385 tonnes of soil â€" and, hopefully, water-ice â€" from the bottom of the crater. The Sun hasn't shone in the area for thousands, if not million!
s, of years, so there are high hopes that the location still preserves its waters, if it has ever had any. The collision of the 42-foot (13-meter) Centaurus will be broadcast on NASA TV, beginning at 6:30 am EDT (1030 GMT). “From west of the Mississippi all the way out to Hawaii is in prime viewing conditions. You only need a ten ...
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