LCROSS Citizen Science Blog

Observing with 16" and 60" telescopes on Mt. Wilson in Southern California, teams from NASA/Ames, Raytheon and Mt. Wilson Institute report no plume apparent on the video monitors during the impact.  Raw data is being analyzed which may bring ...

Principal Investigator Tony Colaprete's file showing final impact locations inside the crater Cabeus and plume visualization tools are posted on this site at:  http://apps.nasa.gov/lcross/observations/files/19/  

Final LCROSS Centaur (Main Impactor) and Sheparding Spacecraft (SSC) target coordinates inside Cabeus Crater are:
   Centaur:  -84.675, 311.275 E
   SSC:  -84.729, 310.64 E

Elevations (Assumed Lunar radius: 1737.4 km):
   Centaur target elev: -3.82693 km ...

It was just announced that the final targeting is Cabeus proper, not Cabeus A, A1 or Cabeus B. The details of the selection will be made public soon. If you scan the neutron data at: http://apps.nasa.gov/lcross ...

LCROSS IMPACT LOCATION IMAGED BY GEMINI NORTH

 

Dr. Diane Wooden, et al has supplied images taken with the 8-meter Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai’i of the LCROSS target crater location Cabeus A1.  The images were taken on ...

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