HTTP:: Telescopes Set for Friday Lunar Crash
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This Friday, October 9, could very well represent one of the most historically significant dates in human history. It may be the time when we determine for sure that water-ice reserves exist at the lunar south pole, a find that would have considerable implications for space exploration and for our future among the stars. If water did endure on the natural satellite, regardless of conditions, then it may be possible for it to exist somewhere else as well. And where there is water, life as we know it can exist. Therefore, all eyes and telescopes will be pointed at the Moon this Friday, at 1130 GMT, Space reports. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission was launched specifically to determine if water-ice indeed existed inside the most remote regions of the Moon, where the Sun did not reach. The LCROSS impactor is equipped with a spent Centaurus rocket stage, which it will drop in the Cabeus crater. It will then photograph the crash site with its in!
struments, in hopes of determining the light signatures that water-ice generates. Shortly after, the impactor itself will be deorbited and forced to plunge to its destruction inside the same crater. It is estimated that more than 380 tonnes of material will be displaced following the two collisions, a sufficiently large quantity for telescopes to pick up.
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