October 11, 2009
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The NASA LCROSS mission reached its conclusion approximately two days ago, when two spacecraft slammed into the surface of the moon.
The results were less spectacular than they promised to be: no water was found, and because the collision was in a crater, it was not possible to see the results of the Centaur booster crashing down “at a speed five times faster than a bullet from a .44 Magnum.”
However, this was about science, not astronomically expensive fireworks shows, and the science part of the mission managed to confirm that the water that they hoped to find was not there.
[…] Check out video of the Centaur’s crash landing and the last seconds of LCROSS. The crash will mark the end of a four-month mission for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing […]