Looking Back At Earth: LCROSS Spacecraft Successfully Detects Life On The Blue Planet
Monday, August 10, 2009 - 02:35
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's LCROSS spacecraft has successfully completed its first Earth-look calibration of its science payload. During the Earth observations, the spacecraft's spectrometers were able to detect the signatures of the Earth's water, ozone, methane, oxygen, carbon dioxide and possibly vegetation.