Friday, October 9, 2009

LCROSS Fizzled?

LCROSS hit the Moon right on target and the following space craft did its job too, but there was no visible explosion of dust thrown up from the impact. At least nothing like the 10 km high plume scientists expected.
"I think we're all a little bit disappointed that we didn't see anything," David Morrison, director of NASA's Lunar Science Institute, told New Scientist.

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