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NASA TV Coverage of LCROSS Impact.news.nationalgeographic.com:gouged what was expected to be a 100-foot-wide (30-meter-wide) hole in a shadowy crater near the moon's south pole, letting fly more than 200 tons of material, scientists estimated before the launch. "Any time you crash, obviously you destroy some area of lunar surface for any kind of scientific study, and that's not good," said NASA's lunar sample curator Gary Lofgren, speaking with National Geographic News earlier this year. (Read about NASA's moon-rock collection.) Last year the International Council for Science's committee on space research imposed new documentation requirements to maintain the integrity of future discoveries—and LCROSS-like crashes—on the moon.SUV-size LCROSS and its used-up, two-ton Centaur rocket both crashed into the moon today.

LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) Impact

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