Missles impact moon

[8ball]

Am I the only person on the board that know this or what ?

There is a vid floating around of the "missle" that hit the moon but its really abunch of Hype we will know tonite just how bad the impact of two missles moving 5000MMPH really did the our moon. Our moon as humans not as a nation. I dont think nasa owns rights to fuck up our mooon regardless of nationality.

[vietkid_2006]

didn't hear anything about this...

[Macaqueistrong]

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science...on-probe_N.htm

WASHINGTON — NASA scientists reported successful impacts of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) lunar mission, 6,000 mile-per-hour controlled crashes into the Cabeus crater on the moon's South Pole.
"I guess my summary is 'really cool'," said Pete Worden of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., which ran the mission. "Today, we kicked up some moon dust and all indications are we are going to have some really interesting results."

Aimed at determining whether the moon contains ice deposits in its shadowed polar craters, the $79 million mission's booster landed at 7:31 a.m. ET, kicking up a moon dust plume.

The mission's "shepherd" spacecraft passed through the plume, observing its chemistry, and then hit the left wall of the crater at 7:35 a.m. ET., kicking up its own plume. Earth observatories and spacecraft observed both impacts.


VIDEO: Raw video of NASA probe slamming into the moon

"We have the data we need to address the questions we have and that's the bottom line," says LCROSS project scientist Anthony Colaprete. "Everything worked out beautifully." All of the shepherd's instruments recorded data from the plume.

Observations made by LCROSS before its demise will be pooled with data from others to determine whether the vapor cloud contains water. In theory, polar craters shadowed from the sun could contain water mixed with lunar soil, likely left over from comet impacts on the moon, which is what the scientists hope to observe.

A preliminary observation suggests the booster rocket made a divot about the size expected in Cabeus crater, Colaprete says, which was 90 feet deep, predicted to kick up a plum more than 6 miles high. The height of the plume should have brought its contents into sunlight, cooking any ice, and allowing observers to measure its density.

Planetary scientists hope to see anywhere from 1% to 10% of the plume contains water, says project head Daniel Andrews, enough to be "meaningful" as a resource for future lunar explorers. "I have to caution people that it will take a while to combine all the data," he says.

An all-star roster of major telescopes observed the impact, as well as NASA's Hubble space telescope and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter launched along with LCROSS on June 18. Hubble images from the impact are expected later today, said LCROSS observation coordinator Jennifer Heldmann, with data from other telescopes already sent and being processed. "That analysis is already going on."

People who got up before dawn to look for the crash at Los Angeles' Griffith Observatory exchanged confused looks instead. Telescope demonstrator Jim Mahon called the celestial show "anticlimactic."

"I was hoping we'd see a flash or a flare," Mahon said.

Contributing: Associated Press

[visualpoet]

Nasa sent an exploratory empty rocket weighin in at a little over 2 tons to impact the south pole of the moon at 7:30 am EST this morning. It wasn't nearly as exciting as it sounds. From what I heard, they've been reading water under the surface with insturments passing close to the moon, so they wanted to get down in the dirt and see if it was true. The missile was followed a few minutes behind by another craft carrying a camera to record the mission, but something happened to the camera and they lost contact with it. Theories are that it was probably struck by debris from the explosion and damaged or destroyed.

From what I've heard today, they haven't released much information yet.

I was really dissapointed that I made time to watch it on TV this morning. I could have been on cb7tuner!

[MikeW]

I saw someone's FaceBook say something about impacts on the moon and i saw a thing in Yahoo the other day about NASA "aiming for the moon" but didnt read or put 2-and2 together...

[deevergote]

Nasa sent an exploratory empty rocket weighin in at a little over 2 tons to impact the south pole of the moon at 7:30 am EST this morning. It wasn't nearly as exciting as it sounds. From what I heard, they've been reading water under the surface with insturments passing close to the moon, so they wanted to get down in the dirt and see if it was true. The missile was followed a few minutes behind by another craft carrying a camera to record the mission, but something happened to the camera and they lost contact with it. Theories are that it was probably struck by debris from the explosion and damaged or destroyed.

From what I've heard today, they haven't released much information yet.

I was really dissapointed that I made time to watch it on TV this morning. I could have been on cb7tuner!

Silly Jon... CB7tuner now... catch the highlights on YouTube later! In fact... I get all my news from CB7tuner. If it matters, someone here posts about it.

[TypeG]

Am I the only person on the board that know this or what ?

There is a vid floating around of the "missle" that hit the moon but its really abunch of Hype we will know tonite just how bad the impact of two missles moving 5000MMPH really did the our moon. Our moon as humans not as a nation. I dont think nasa owns rights to fuck up our mooon regardless of nationality.

the moon gets hit roughly 50 times per year by asteroids. the missile was designed to have the same impact as a meteorite. so really, it's nothing new to the moon. so if you really ''know'' about it, then you would have known that. later.

[deevergote]

Plus... I'm sure very little material actually left the moon's atmosphere. It just settled back down on the big dirtball.

[ric3rboi23]

i was posting about this as it was happening last night in the lounge thread, i watched the camera from the satellite as it crashed the same time nasa did.

[IBCNYA]

Is it me or does the moon look closer and closer every year?

[deevergote]

Is it me or does the moon look closer and closer every year?

You're just getting taller. That's what happens to boys your age.

[MclovinRR]

oh no now what moon will the cow jump over??

[Father Time]

Is it me or does the moon look closer and closer every year?

It's actually getting farther away from us by about an inch a year.

[guitarplayer825]

Is it me or does the moon look closer and closer every year?

[Bcozzi71]

Am I the only person on the board that know this or what ?

There is a vid floating around of the "missle" that hit the moon but its really abunch of Hype we will know tonite just how bad the impact of two missles moving 5000MMPH really did the our moon. Our moon as humans not as a nation. I dont think nasa owns rights to fuck up our mooon regardless of nationality.

took me awhile to read this but yea its not a big deal. The moon takes big hits all the time. Its just a science experiment. The other side of the moon looks much different then the side we see cause all the hits it takes.