The "used-up rocket" was sent into the Cabeus crater near the moon's south pole. The mission allowed for real-time images and data to be streamed back to Earth. Related Articles.

It remains a place of mystery, for sure. But scientists say they now know that the moon has enough water ice and vapor to potentially quench the thirst of lunar astronauts and even fuel lunar rockets.

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It struck the floor of Cabeus crater, creating a plume of debris examined for the presence of water and other chemicals in the lunar regolith.

NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission was brutish and short. It began on 9 October 2009, when the hull of a spent Centaur rocket stage smashed into Cabeus crater, near the ...

image: This is an image of debris ejected from Cabeus crater and into the sunlight about 20 seconds after the LCROSS impact. The inset shows a close-up with the direction of the sun and the Earth.

LOS ANGELES-NASA's much-hyped mission to hurl a spacecraft into the moon turned out some worthwhile data after all, scientists said. New images show a mile-high plume of lunar debris from the ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission (LCROSS) based on new analysis of available lunar data, has shifted the target crater from Cabeus A to […] ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — Preliminary data from NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shado… ...

Southwest Research Institute scientists joined a team that reanalyzed and modeled data from a planned lunar impact more than a decade ago. The findings suggest that volatiles present in a crater ne… ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — There could be a new crater on the moon, thanks to a spent rocket booster said to have been heading toward the lunar surface Friday. Experts predicted the rocket ...

This is an image of debris ejected from Cabeus crater and into the sunlight about 20 seconds after the LCROSS impact. The inset shows a close-up with the direction of the sun and the Earth. This ...