Collateral Data: NASA's Planned Moon Crash Churned Up Water, Lots of Mercury and More

An spent rocket stage that NASA sent hurtling into the moon last year in hopes of kicking up water from a polar crater delivered on that mission, revealing that at least a moderate portion of its target was indeed made of ice. But the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) revealed much more than that--hinting at a rich mixture of chemical species in the crater, including carbon monoxide, mercury and possibly silver. [More]

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