Sunday, December 16, 2012

NASA to crash probes into the moon

NASA is going to crash two lunar probes into the moon this Monday.

The U.S. space agency's twin spacecraft, named Ebb and Flow, will fly low over the moon's surface and crash into the rim of a crater, the final move of a successful lunar-mapping mission.

These controlled crashes have been part of the plan from the mission's outset, but there will not be any live visuals, because the impacts are going to happen in the dark.

The mission's principal investigator, Maria Zuber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says people should not expect a...

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The American space agency is going to crash two probes into the moon. This is not the first time that it happens. Do you agree with the idea?

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