How Did the LCROSS Mission Allow Water to Be Detected

question 48

Multiple Choice

How did the LCROSS mission allow water to be detected on the Moon?

• A) It was a mission that allowed astronauts who landed on the moon to find frozen water on the surface of the Moon.
• B) The mission produced man-made impacts in a dark crater in order to cause an explosive plume of debris to be ejected high above the surface that could be studied.
• C) It was an Earth-based telescopic mission.
• D) It included the launch of a spacecraft to orbit the Moon for the next 40 years to detect evaporated atmosphere produced by the Sun's UV rays.

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Definitions:

Mid-Ocean Ridge

An underwater mountain range formed by plate tectonics, where new oceanic crust is created.

Transform Fault

A strike-slip fault that accommodates the horizontal movement of one tectonic plate past another.

Mid-Atlantic Ridge

An underwater ridge located in the Atlantic Ocean, forming a divergent tectonic plate boundary that separates the Eurasian and North American plates in the north and the African and South American plates in the south.

Seafloor Spreading

A geologic process in which tectonic plates move apart from each other, allowing magma to rise and solidify as new oceanic crust.