LCROSS (Centaur) impacted successfully today.
I think lots of people expected a big explosion or something :P
NASA didn't try to blow the moon in half! xD
They wanna see if there is water ( in the form of ice) on some shadowy craters on the pole's of the moon. So they fire a spaceship into the moon and collect the dust and see if there is water. :D
LCROSS launched with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on June 18, 2009 at 2:32 p.m. PDT. The LCROSS shepherding spacecraft and the Atlas Vs Centaur upper stage rocket executed a fly-by of the moon on June 23, 2009 (LCROSS lunar swingby video stream coverage) and entered into an elongated Earth orbit to position LCROSS for impact on a lunar pole. On final approach, the shepherding spacecraft and Centaur will separate.
I think lots of people expected a big explosion or something :P
NASA didn't try to blow the moon in half! xD
They wanna see if there is water ( in the form of ice) on some shadowy craters on the pole's of the moon. So they fire a spaceship into the moon and collect the dust and see if there is water. :D
LCROSS launched with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on June 18, 2009 at 2:32 p.m. PDT. The LCROSS shepherding spacecraft and the Atlas Vs Centaur upper stage rocket executed a fly-by of the moon on June 23, 2009 (LCROSS lunar swingby video stream coverage) and entered into an elongated Earth orbit to position LCROSS for impact on a lunar pole. On final approach, the shepherding spacecraft and Centaur will separate.
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