Dec 16, 2012

Crash Landing on The Moon!

     NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft will crash into a mile-high cliff near the lunar north pole Monday to close out a successful mission to map the moon's gravity field. Here's the mission homepage.
     NASA didn't want to take a chance that the apartment washing-machine sized craft could crash into one of the historic landing sites on the Moon.

      NASA will provide live online commentary as the crash time of 4:00pm Central Time approaches tomorrow.

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