{"id":3530,"date":"2009-10-09T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2009\/10\/lcross-impacts-today\/"},"modified":"2009-10-09T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T03:00:00","slug":"lcross-impacts-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2009\/10\/lcross-impacts-today\/","title":{"rendered":"LCROSS impacts today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: left; padding: 5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/chrisicon2.jpg\" width=\"49\" height=\"50\" alt=\"A post by Chris Rowan\"\/><\/span>Remember <a href=http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/deepimpact\/main\/index.html>Deep Impact<\/a>? One space scientist commented at the time, &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe they pay us to have this much fun.&#8221; And it seems that they&#8217;ve managed to convince NASA to have more fun crashing stuff into other bits of our solar system &#8211; with the target this time being the Moon.<br \/>\nThe impact plume kicked up by <a href=http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/LCROSS\/main\/index.html>LCROSS<\/a> when it impacts inside the crater <a href=http:\/\/www.mapaplanet.org\/explorer-bin\/explorer.cgi?map=Moon&#038;layers=moon_clementine_multi&#038;west=52.88&#038;south=31.42&#038;east=62.38&#038;north=36.18&#038;center_lat=&#038;center=57.625&#038;defaultcenter=on&#038;grid=none&#038;stretch=none&#038;projection=SIMP&#038;r=5&#038;g=3&#038;b=1&#038;advoption=NO&#038;info=NO&#038;resolution=151.615&#038;scale=0.10000&#038;imageTopX=-72050.8653447032&#038;imageTopY=1061062.7435669303>Cabeus<\/a>, near the Moon&#8217;s South Pole, will hopefully confirm <a href=http:\/\/www.space.com\/scienceastronomy\/090923-moon-water-discovery.html>the presence of small amounts of ice in the lunar subsurface<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe time of impact is around 11:30 UTC, which conveniently works out as lunchtime here in the UK. <a href=http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/ames\/news\/features\/2009\/lcross_broadcast.html>NASA<\/a> and <a href=http:\/\/www.slooh.com\/special_feed.php>SLOOH<\/a> are both providing live feeds of the event, that will hopefully include live pictures of the impact itself, and not just lots of gleeful scientists in mission control giggling that 5 year-olds (something which <a href=http:\/\/twitter.com\/#search?q=%23LCROSS>Twitter will happily provide<\/a>). Still, I plan to tune in as I munch on my lunch. The actual scientific results, of course, will probably take a while to come out, so the immediate appeal is just seeing a big explosion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists get to play interplanetary bumper cars to search for lunar water.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2009\/10\/lcross-impacts-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geology","category-planets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}