On November 24 of this year, NASA sent the DART probe to collide an asteroid, the objective is to analyze the effects of the impact in the orbit of this celestial body. However, it is not the first time that the American agency performs this type of test.
The US Space Agency’s (NASA) LCROSS Mission launched a rocket into a crater on the Moon in 2009. The mission’s objective was to find out if there was an ice sheet on the dark side of the Moon.
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In July 2009, NASA sent a probe bound for the dark side of the Moon, which does not receive sunlight, to invade the surface layer of the lunar soil and find out if this coating could protect the ice from the solar winds.
The experiment was considered a success because, after the probe’s impact on Cabeus crater, a second satellite enabled NASA scientists to identify the existence of water amidst the dust from the collision.
Dubbed LCROSS, the rocket that hit the Moon orbited Earth for 36 days until impact on October 9, 2009.
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