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Article: NASA spacecraft to search for water on the Moon
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- The Hindustan Times
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- June 25, 2008
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Washington, June 25 -- Engineering teams are conducting final checkouts of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, that will take a significant step forward in the search for water on the moon.
The mission's main objective is to confirm the presence or absence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater near a lunar polar region.
To simulate the harsh conditions of space, technicians subjected the spacecraft to 13.5 days of heating and cooling cycles during which temperatures reached as high as 230 degrees Fahrenheit and as low as minus 40 degrees.
Previous testing for the LCROSS ...