Today the LRO / LCROSS mission blasted off from the Cape. LRO will map the moon so that Google Moon has some good imagery for us, and LCROSS will drive the spent rocket motor section into the moon at maximum ramming speed so we can all watch on Earth when it goes [pow!!] into the polar region of our nearest solar system object.
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Ok, I made some of that up. Before today I never heard or Google Moon, but the folks at Google have been working on it, and LRO, who’s real mission is to find some cool landing spots for future manned missions, will indeed provide good data to Google Moon. And LCROSS will look for evidence of water at the polar areas of the moon.
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It was cool watching the launch on NASA TV today. They had a camera looking down and fed real time video during the launch. It’s amazing that by the time the rocket assembly had pitched to the point that the horizon was visible in the field of view, only a few minutes, the sky was already black.
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