Hydrogen Mapping of the Lunar South Pole Using the LRO Neutron Detector Experiment LEND

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Mitrofanov, I. G., Sanin, A. B., Boynton, W. V., Chin, G., Garvin, J. B., Golovin, D., Evans, L. G., Harshman, K., Kozyrev, A. S., Litvak, M. L., Malakhov, A., Mazarico, E., McClanahan, T., Milikh, G., Mokrousov, M., Nandikotkur, G., Neumann, G. A., Nuzhdin, I., Sagdeev, R., Shevchenko, V., Shvetsov, V., Smith, D. E., Starr, R., Tretyakov, V. I., Trombka, J., Usikov, D., Varenikov, A., Vostrukhin, A., Zuber, M. T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2010
• Subjects: Hayne; Kerr; Paige; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1185696; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1185696

Watering the Moon About a year ago, a spent upper stage of an Atlas rocket was deliberately crashed into a crater at the south pole of the Moon, ejecting a plume of debris, dust, and vapor. The goal of this event, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) experiment, was to search...