St. Louis Science Center: Astronomy Fact Of The Day: October 9, 2021

Press release from St. Louis Science Center:

October 09, 2021

Today in 2009, NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was intentionally crashed into a permanently shadowed region of Cabeus crater near the Moon’s south pole. This impact created a plume of material from the bottom of the crater containing frozen water which had not seen sunlight in billions of years.

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