But another NASA project, the Lunar Crater Observing and Sensing Satellite,or LCROSS, could provide answers to what lies deeper beneath the moon's surface.
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As a mobile laboratory, Curiosity will focus first on Gale Crater's 14, 700-foot-high central peak.
The Gale Crater landing site at 4.59 degrees south, 137.44 degrees east, places the rover within driving distance of layers of the crater's interior mountain.