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HTTP:: LRO Observes LCROSS Collision
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The Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) spacecraft crashed into the Cabeus crater at the south pole of the Moon on Friday, October 9, just minutes after releasing its spent Centaurus upper stage in a free dive. As they both collapsed to the surface, the “eyes” of dozens of telescopes were pointed at the scene. Also flying some 80 kilometers above was the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), whose Diviner instrument was clicking away, capturing infrared pictures of the crash site. The first rough data have now been made public, PhysOrg reports. The Diviner Instrument (Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment) usually measures thermal emissions on the lunar surface, in a bid to provide NASA experts with the best possible readings on where the most appropriate place to land humans in the future might be. The LRO passed above the impact site some 90 seconds after both spacecraft had already plummeted to their demise. It imaged the area in infrared wavelength!
s, at two-hour intervals, and from an angle 48 degrees off nadir. Each of the instrument's detectors captured a 300 by 700-meter stretch of land in this configuration, the mission controllers announced. The first image clearly shows the two impact sites. NASA intentionally planned to slam LCROSS a few kilometers away from the Centaurus impact s...
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