{"id":453,"date":"2009-04-09T23:26:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T03:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orbitalhub.com\/?p=453"},"modified":"2009-04-09T23:26:29","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T03:26:29","slug":"lcross-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"LCROSS Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

\n
\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Credits: NASA\/Northrop Grumman<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

The launch date for the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite<\/a> (LCROSS), initially set for April 24, 2009, was pushed to June 2, 2009.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Dr. Anthony Colaprete, a planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center and the principal investigator for the LCROSS mission, gave a lecture as part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture series. The lecture was posted on NASA’s website as Prospecting for Water on the Moon: The Upcoming LCROSS Mission<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

If you are an amateur astronomer and have a telescope, you can contribute to the LCROSS mission by participating in the LCROSS Observation Campaign<\/a>. Images provided by the public will be a valuable addition to the mission archive.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Please stay tuned on OrbitalHub for more details about the LCROSS mission.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The launch of the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) is getting closer. Initially set for April 24, 2009, the launch date was pushed to June 2, 2009. Dr. Anthony Colaprete, a planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center and the principal investigator for the LCROSS mission, gave a lecture as part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture series. The lecture was posted on NASA website as Prospecting for Water on the Moon: The Upcoming LCROSS Mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[49,21],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-lcross","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}