Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Science Payload Measurement Results of South Pole Impact

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Dec 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009agufm.u31b0035e&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #U31B-0035

Physics

[6250] Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects / Moon, [6297] Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects / Instruments And Techniques

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NASA's LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) mission is a lunar impactor targeted at a permanently shadowed region near the lunar south-pole. It will raise and observe an ejecta cloud of regolith and possibly ice and/or water vapor. LCROSS was co-manifested with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) on an Atlas V rocket and launched June 18, 2009. The mission is managed and operated by NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) with industry partner Northrop Grumman. There are two impact events in the mission, the primary one created by the Atlas V Centaur rocket upper-stage, followed four minutes later by the impact of the LCROSS spacecraft. The impact event is October 9, 2009. The LCROSS science payload consists of nine instruments: a visible-light context camera, two near-infrared cameras, two mid-infrared cameras, two near-infrared spectrometers, one visible-ultraviolet spectrometer, and a high-speed photometer. This paper describes the on-orbit science payload calibration process and presents results of the impact event as observed by the LCROSS satellite science payload. Visible camera image taken from altitude ~9000km on June 23, 2009. Surface and limb targets observed are annotated.
Simulated view from LCROSS spacecraft at time of Centaur impact.

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