NASA moon impactor successfully completes lunar swingby
Submit on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 05:56
The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, successfully completed its most significant early mission milestone today with a lunar swingby and calibration of its science instruments. The satellite will search for water ice in a permanently shadowed crater at the moon’s south pole.
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