{"id":10825,"date":"2019-10-10T18:11:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T12:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10825"},"modified":"2019-10-10T18:11:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T12:41:44","slug":"lcross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lcross\/","title":{"rendered":"LCROSS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: NASA might\nhave a follow-up mission of LCROSS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About LCROSS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite\n(LCROSS) was a robotic spacecraft operated by NASA. It was launched in 2009\nalong with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).<\/li><li>LCROSS had an attached Centaur booster rocket\nwhich into the crater Cabeus near the south pole of the Moon.<\/li><li>Key achievement: Plume and the ejecta curtain\ncreated by the LCROSS Centaur impact LCROSS Centaur impact showed evidence of water.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional\nInformation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LRO:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Lunar\nReconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Mission:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Launched in 2009, it is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit.<\/li><li>The mission seeks to help identify sites close to potential resources with high scientific value, favourable terrain and the environment necessary for safe future robotic and human lunar missions.<\/li><li><strong>Key achievements of LRO:<\/strong><ul><li>Made a 3-D map of the Moon&#8217;s surface at 100-meter resolution and 98.2% coverage<\/li><li>In polar shadowed regions of moon, found the coldest spots measured (below 30 K) in the solar system.<\/li><li>Discovered significant subsurface hydrogen deposits in regions cold enough for water ice to survive.<\/li><li>First radar measurements of the lunar far side.<\/li><li>Mapped in detail the temperatures, UV reflectance, and near-surface hydrogen abundance of the moon&#8217;s polar cold traps<\/li><li>Created the first cosmic ray albedo proton map of the Moon<\/li><li>Made high-resolution images of robotic and human exploration sites<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: NASA might have a follow-up mission of LCROSS. Facts: About LCROSS: Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was a robotic spacecraft operated by NASA. It was launched in 2009 along with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). LCROSS had an attached Centaur booster rocket which into the crater Cabeus near the south pole of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lcross\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LCROSS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704872689},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}