File:LCROSS Centaur Impact Flash.jpg

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DescriptionLCROSS Centaur Impact Flash.jpg	English: This mid-infra-red image was taken in the last minutes of the LCROSS flight mission to the Moon. The small white spot (enlarged in the insets) seen within the dark shadow of lunar crater walls is the initial flash created by the impact of a spent Centaur upper stage rocket. Travelling at 1.5 miles per second, the Centaur rocket hit the lunar surface, followed a few minutes later by the shepherding LCROSS spacecraft. Earthbound observatories have reported capturing both impacts. But before crashing into the lunar surface itself, the LCROSS spacecraft's instrumentation successfully recorded close-up the details of the rocket stage impact, the resulting crater, and debris cloud. In the coming weeks, data from the challenging mission will be used to search for signs of water in the lunar material blasted from the surface.
Date	12 October 2009
Source	NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
Author	NASA, LCROSS Mission Team

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