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LCROSS Centaur impacts the permanently shadowed floor of Cabeus crater

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A spent Centaur upper stage struck Cabeus at roughly 2.5 km/s. The trailing shepherding spacecraft flew through the ejecta plume for about four minutes, returning spectra, before impacting itself.

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  1. Story
  2. A spent Centaur upper stage struck Cabeus at roughly 2.5 km/s. The trailing shepherding spacecraft flew through the ejecta plume for about four minutes, returning spectra, before impacting itself.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Lunar South Pole Region
  5. Cabeus Crater
  6. LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite)
  7. LCROSS Centaur impacts the permanently shadowed floor of Cabeus crater
  8. Connections
  9. LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite)
  10. Cabeus Crater
  11. Lunar South Pole Region
  12. Lunar Water Ice
  13. Cabeus Crater
  14. LCROSS Centaur impacts the permanently shadowed floor of Cabeus crater
  15. LCROSS results published: water measured in the Cabeus ejecta plume
  16. Lunar South Pole Region
  17. LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite)
  18. LCROSS Centaur impacts the permanently shadowed floor of Cabeus crater
  19. LCROSS results published: water measured in the Cabeus ejecta plume
  20. Shackleton Crater
  21. Cabeus Crater
  22. Lunar Water Ice
  23. LCROSS Centaur impacts the permanently shadowed floor of Cabeus crater
  24. NASA narrows candidate south polar landing regions to nine
  25. Artemis IV first crewed lunar south pole landing (planned)
  26. Evidence
  27. Reports water in the LCROSS Cabeus crater ejecta plume at 5.6 ± 2.9 per cent by mass, alongside other volatiles — the first direct measurement of water in a lunar permanently shadowed cold trap.
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