nuune Posted October 9, 2009 Watch the event now, in less than minutes time, the crafts will crash land on the moon to look for water in a crater LIVE coverage of lunar crash NASA to moon: Get ready because here we come By SETH BORENSTEIN (AP) – 3 hours ago WASHINGTON — Two NASA spacecraft are barreling toward the moon at twice the speed of a bullet, about to crash into a lunar crater in a search for ice. If all goes well, the impact will be beamed back live to Earth. The first and much bigger crash is set for 7:31 a.m. EDT. That's when an empty rocket that weighs 2.2 tons should hit the crater Cabeus and create a minicrater about half the size of an Olympic pool. It should kick up a plume of lunar debris about six miles high. The idea is to confirm the theory that water — a key resource if people are going to go back to the moon — is hidden below the barren moonscape. Trailing behind the rocket is the lunar probe LCROSS, short for Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite and pronounced L-Cross, beaming back to Earth live pictures of the impact and the debris plume using color cameras. It will scour for ice, fly through the debris cloud and then just four minutes later take the fatal plunge itself, triggering a dust storm one-third the size of the first hit. Telescopes around the world — including the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope — will aim their cameras at the big event to provide more views of the dust-up. LCROSS and its bigger rocket stage launched together last June and only separated Thursday night, the last major milestone before the big crash. The lunar minidemolition derby will be broadcast live on NASA television. Museums and observatories planned early morning events to show the crashes, which can be seen with backyard telescopes in the predawn darkness west of the Mississippi River. But the best place to watch the lunar action will be on the Internet, scientists said. "It's going to be a muted shimmer of light," said Anthony Colaprete, an LCROSS scientist. The LCROSS probe cost $79 million and was an add-on to a bigger NASA satellite now circling the moon. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SeeKer Posted October 9, 2009 Are you saying I should be up this early huddled in a blanky in 40F weather to watch this event from my deck? Should be a thrilling sight can't wait! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nuune Posted October 9, 2009 we are in europe, so 2 minutes to go, oo yeaaahAAAAAAAAAA it is getting closer Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SeeKer Posted October 9, 2009 ^^^ You are way into this. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paragon Posted October 9, 2009 So how did it go? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nuune Posted October 9, 2009 ^^^ Seeker The carft crashed into the moon hurling debris high above the lunar surface, da impact was huge, a second specraft packed with science instruments followed next to crash as well, but all da data has now being transferred back to earth for analaysis. dat is to search water on da surface, the suspeected area is where the crafts were crash landed. Jamaal, it was great to watch, as da two crafts got closer to the surface, what a sight! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nin-Yaaban Posted October 9, 2009 The aliens who live in the moon won't be too happy about this. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jacaylbaro Posted October 9, 2009 Now we should expect an attack from the aliens ,,,,,,,,,, Hmmm wondering when ... nuune, any videos from the crash itself ?? ,,, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paragon Posted October 9, 2009 Ninyow meey bisha meesheeda u daayaan? Yeey nagu soo dhicine? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nuune Posted October 9, 2009 JB, go to da NASA website, I was watching da LIVE crash landing there, so halkaas ayaad ka helaysaa. lool aliens, most of da moon's surface has not being discovered, there are parts dat is not even visible to earth, da other side! Jamaal, lool, deyn maayaan, biya iyo balaaya ayay baarayaan, da result will be interesting though, aan ka war sugno, this particular crater they crash landed da crafts into is where they suspected to be water, it was huge hole thought to be full of ice water. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nin-Yaaban Posted October 9, 2009 LoL kaalay, waxaas dhan biyo meey u suubinayaan? Aduunkan biyo la'aan maa kudhacday? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nuune Posted October 9, 2009 ^^ Nin Yaaban, ehehe, yes, if there is water on da some parts of da moon, then there is life, meaning life can exist there, and this would be a hub for future explorations of outer planets, the moon will be a transit hub for scientists to live there and carry out science experiments. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paragon Posted October 9, 2009 Originally posted by Nin-Yaaban: LoL kaalay, waxaas dhan biyo meey u suubinayaan? Aduunkan biyo la'aan maa kudhacday? Nin-yaaban, waraa barakac ayaa aduunka ka jira soo maad arkin. Whole villages moving biya la'aan darteed. Haddaa world war for water is expected to happen in 2040s. Marka niman bisha ka war dooney waa fuleyo aan rasaasta dhici doonta aan u dul qaadan karin. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nin-Yaaban Posted October 9, 2009 LoL marka waa dad horay usii fakarayo haa. Caadi ma ahan. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jacaylbaro Posted October 9, 2009 Waxay rabaan inta ay aduunka gubaan inay iyaguna dayaxa soo fadhiistaan oo ka daawadaan ,,, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
