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NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) over the lunar surface
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On 18 June 2009, the launch window will open for the NASA Moon Mission referred to as Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). This mission is to involve six experiments providing a data platform for future research work on the Moon. Among other things, the probe is intended to find safe landing sites from an altitude of fifty kilometres, to locate resources on the Moon, to learn more about environmental radiation exposure on the Moon and, finally, to test and demonstrate key technologies. This mission is scheduled to last for one year, with the option of extending it to five years.
The American scientists are being supported by an international team that includes German scientists from Berlin and Münster. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is supporting the German team members involved, who are drawn from Germany’s national space programme.
On a joint basis with LRO, NASA will be sending one further probe to the Moon, the collision impact LCROSS unit, or Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite. This satellite weighs two tones and will observe the dust cloud from the collision impact of the upper stage of the Centaur in a region of permanent shadow close to the Moon’s south pole before itself crashing into the lunar surface in the same general area. The results from the LCROSS mission should make it possible to verify the presence of ice in craters in the polar regions, in the process also confirming data obtained during earlier lunar missions.
Credit: NASA.
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