News Source: Star-Bulletin
| about 1 month ago
A plume more than 3 miles high was anticipated when the Centaur rocket moving at a speed of more than 1.5 miles per second hit the moon's surface -- an event timed early yesterday for optimum viewing with Mauna Kea's powerful telescopes...But there...
News Source: B92
| about 1 month ago
The collision into a crater on the south pole of the moon was part of a search for water or ice under the lunar surface. A probe that takes photographs followed close behind, crashing four minutes later...Scientists wanted to examine the huge plume...
News Source: Denver Post
| about 1 month ago
Photos and video of the impact showed little more than a fuzzy white flash...One person joked that someone hit the pause button in Mission Control. Yet scientists involved in the project were downright gleeful. There were no pictures of spewing...
News Source: NewKerala
| about 1 month ago
The craft successfully struck their target, a crater thought to harbor frozen water...Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) performed its own kamikaze dive, which was the final act in its mission to detect evidence of water ice in the moon...
News Source: Star Tribune
| about 1 month ago
As science, however, it might still qualify for blockbuster status. Friday morning's mission sent a rocket booster crashing into a shadowy crater at the moon's south pole. Another spacecraft followed closely behind, taking scientific readings and...
News Source: The Scotsman
| about 1 month ago
The "bombing" of the moon was supposed to kick up a six-mile-high cloud of debris big enough to be seen by amateur astronomers on earth...The plan was to scan the plume for evidence of water, believed to lie at the bottom of freezing polar craters. A...