Saturday, October 17, 2009

Puny plume on the Moon...

of vapor and fine debris from the Centaur impact was indeed caught by LCROSS instruments (click to enlarge). The high-contrast image shown above was captured 15 sec after the impact and shows a plume 6-8 km in diameter. Still no word on the analysis of the spectra and the composition of the ejecta.

Previous related posts about this mission here and here.

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