On October 9th, NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, LCROSS, launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and created twin impacts on the surface on the moon to look for water ice. The Centaur was the first to impact the moon and LCROSS followed looking for water in debris caused by this first impact. A debris cloud was expected to rise from the first impact, but none were apparent in the pictures sent back by the spacecraft. Scientists are currently analyzing the data provided by the LCROSS mission. No conclusions were made yet, so we will have to wait for the results.
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