A small NASA spacecraft and its companion rocket did indeed strike water when they slammed into a permanently shadowed crater at the moon’s south pole, NASA announced November 13.
PLUME HAD WATER The plume (inset) generated by a Centaur rocket crashing into a crater at the moon’s south pole is seen about 20 seconds after impact in this visible-light image taken by LCROSS, the rocket’s mother craft.
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