LCROSS has Impacted!

“The LCROSS Science team are making their preliminary assessment of data collected from the LCROSS Space craft of the plume created by the Centaur impact. Observatories involved in the LCROSS Observation Campaign are reporting in.”

How exciting! This is the comment on the LCROSS facebook page and I have been glued to my PC and TV screen watching the event take place live along with several thousand people across the planet. This is not only an important mission to define water’s existence on the moon , it also falls at the end of World Space Week, which couldn’t have been more appropriate.

A press conference is now being held to report on the telescopes and instruments measurements that were tracking the impact event, fingers crossed for a successful mission!