Rocket into the Moon - 09.10.2009
It wasn't Hollywood; it wasn't Bruce Willis. But I don't really think anyone truly expected that it would be.
Nasa slammed a segment of rocket into the Moon today to see if it could kick up sufficient debris that it might be able to detect the presence of water.
It has long been suspected that some of the craters in the Moon's polar regions might hide ice in their permanently shadowed regions - ice that was delivered billions of years ago by comets or water-rich asteroids.
The 2.2-tonne rocket upper-stage went into the Moon at 2.5km/s at an angle of 80 degrees.
The good news, according to Nasa, is that LCROSS did manage to detect the impact, and the spectrometers onboard have returned important data.
The impact was set up to make the biggest debris field possible.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jonathanamos/
Someone take this toy outta my neighbourhood, Its blocking my view of the earth...
The real landing took place at night.
The cargo included "The Mole", which is already working to drill an underground cavern and establiah Moon Base Alpha...
2.5km/s = 2.5*3600 km/h = 9000 km/h ??????
astronauts on the moon
with 2.5km/s?
what kind of equipment? Nesscoffe and milk powder? :P
what ! was it fake ?
They are NOT looking for water. This rocket carried equipment to drill for minerals and set up a secret base on the moon.
A G A I N ? You believe it? :P
But Why can't astronauts go to the moon again ??!!
Yep! They get tired bombing mother Earth... ;)