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LRO/LCROSS
is a dual-spacecraft (SC) launch. LRO is a lunar orbiter
that will investigate resources, landing sites, and the
lunar radiation environment in preparation for future human
missions to the Moon. LCROSS will search for the presence of
water ice that may exist on the permanently shadowed floors
of lunar polarcraters. The LCROSS mission will use two Lunar
Kinetic Impactors, the inert Centaur upper stage and the
LCROSS SC itself, to produce debris plumes that may reveal
the presence of water ice under spectroscopic analysis. |
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