NASA finally sees plume from moon impact

By doris | Published: October 19, 2009

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NASA scientists have finally seen in their data a debris plume created by the impact of a moon probe last week.

The faint plume was seen in the data from the engineered crash one week after the impact of the LCROSS probe.

Scientists are hoping that analysis of the plume will show signs of water ice ejected from the probe’s target crater, named Cabeus, at the lunar south pole.
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The debris plume, created by the probe’s Centaur stage rocket, was captured by the LCROSS ultraviolet/visible and near infra-red spectrometer. Its signature was faint, but distinct.

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