Water within a permanently shadowed lunar crater: Further LCROSS modeling and analysis

KM Luchsinger, NJ Chanover, PD Strycker - Icarus, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The 2009 Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) impact
mission detected water ice absorption using spectroscopic observations of the impact …

Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS)

K Ennico-Smith - Encyclopedia of Lunar Science, 2023 - Springer
The laser ranging consists in determining the round-trip travel time of laser pulses between
a transmitter on the Earth and a retroreflector on an artificial satellite or on the Moon. The …

The Deposition, Retention, and Disruption of Water Ice at the Lunar Poles Across Temporal and Spatial Scales

KM Luchsinger - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Water ice deposited and preserved at the lunar poles may contain a record of the history of
water ice delivery to the inner Solar System in general and to the Earth-Moon system in …

Sublimation and photodissociation in the LCROSS ejecta plume: Effects of lunar material

A Agrawal - 2019 - repositories.lib.utexas.edu
Abstract The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched the Lunar
Crater Observing and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission to confirm the presence/absence …

Impact of the LCROSS Centaur Upper Stage and Subsurface Layering Assessment through iSALE-2D and Free Molecular Monte Carlo Methods

W Jo, D Goldstein, P Varghese… - AAS/Division for …, 2024 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
We simulate impacts of a high-fidelity, 2D axisymmetric Lunar Crater Observation Sensing
Satellite (LCROSS) Centaur Upper Stage model body in iSALE-2D and process the ejecta …