Shop at the MoonViews Store
Shop at the MoonViews Store

« House of Representatives Honors Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project | Main | LOIRP Releases Lunar Orbiter Ranger 8 Impact Crater Image »

LCROSS Citizen Science

The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) will excavate the permanently dark floor of one of the Moon's polar craters with two heavy impactors in 2009 to test the theory that ancient ice lies buried there. The impact will eject material from the crater's surface and subsurface to create a plume that specialized instruments will be able to analyze for the presence of water (ice and vapor), hydrocarbons and hydrated materials. Mission scientists estimate that the Centaur impact plume may be visible through amateur-class telescopes with apertures as small as 10 to 12 inches. As the mission progresses, this site will provide the general public, classrooms, and the amateur astronomy community details on how to observe the impact. The LCROSS mission will actively solicit images of the impact from the public. These images will provide a valuable addition to the archive of data chronicling the impact and its aftermath. This site will include a gallery of images received from both the public and professional communities. [More]

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)

Space News
- Moontoday.net
- OnOrbit.com
- SpaceRef.com
- ColabSpace

About

This page contains a single entry from the blog posted on June 4, 2009 10:23 AM.

The previous post in this blog was House of Representatives Honors Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project.

The next post in this blog is LOIRP Releases Lunar Orbiter Ranger 8 Impact Crater Image.

Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.

PARTICIPANTS
- NASA ESMD
- NASA IPP
- NASA ARC
- NASA LSI
- ACES
- SpaceRef Interactive
- SkyCorp
- Odyssey Moon
- USGS
- LPI
- PDS

LUNAR ORBITER
- Overview
- Images
- Documents

LUNAR MISSIONS
Scientific
- Apollo
- Chandrayaan-1
- Chang'e-1
- Clementine
- Kaguya
- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
- LCROSS
- Luna
- Lunakhod
- Lunar Prospector
- Ranger
- SMART-1
- Surveyor
- Zond

Commercial
- Google Lunar X Prize

 

Copyright 2008
MoonViews LLC