Cratering the Moon Challenge
Background Information related to the LCROSS Mission

Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Mission Website

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Mission Website

Enrichment Materials:

• Quest LCROSS-related Materials
• Lunar Nautics: Designing a Mission to Live and Work on the Moon Educator Guide

HELPFUL NEWS:

• 05/22/08 -- Lunar GRAIL
• 05/24/08 -- 100 Explosions on the Moon
• 02/29/08 -- New Radar Maps of the Moon
• 02/20/08 -- Who's Orbiting the Moon?
  
• 09/28/07 -- A New Lunar Impact Observatory
• 07/16/07 -- Throttling Back to the Moon
• 07/25/07 -- Thinking Big About Space Telescopes
• 03/14/07 -- Shooting Marbles at 16,000 mph
• 03/27/07 -- Ice on the Moon
• 02/14/07 -- The Moon is a School for Exploration
• 02/02/07 -- 181 Things to do on the Moon
• 01/26/07 -- The Moon is a Harsh Witness
• 01/23/07 -- Lunar Transient Phenomena
• 01/08/07 -- Metric Moon
• 01/03/07 -- Lunar Geminids


• 12/04/06 -- Why the Moon?
• 08/30/06 -- SMART-1 to Crash the Moon
• 07/28/06 -- Crash Landing on the Moon
• 06/13/06 -- A Meteoroid Hits the Moon
• 04/10/06 -- In Search of Water, NASA Spacecraft to Hit the Moon


• 05/24/05 -- A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Moon
• 04/28/05 -- Prospecting for Lunar Water
• 04/08/05 -- Moon Water
• 03/05/05 -- En route to Mars, the Moon


• 07/31/99 Farewell, Lunar Prospector
• 07/28/99 -- Crash Landing on the Moon
• 07/28/99 -- A stay of execution for Lunar Prospector
• 07/21/99 -- Bracing for Impact
• 06/04/99 -- Lunar Prospector heads for a Watery Grave
• 04/06/99 -- Zeroing in on Lunar Ice