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SMART Probe to Crash Into the Moon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the player-nasa-cratered dept.

cyberbian writes "Amateur astronomers will be excited to note that they can witness the impact of the SMART-1 probe crashing into the moon. The impact is scheduled for the morning of September 2nd (PDT). From the article: 'There's nothing wrong with the spacecraft, which is wrapping up a successful 3-year mission to the Moon. SMART-1's main job was to test a European-built ion engine. It worked beautifully, propelling the craft in 2003 on a unique spiral path from Earth to the Moon. From lunar orbit, SMART-1 took thousands of high-resolution pictures and made mineral maps of the Moon's terrain. One of its most important discoveries was a "Peak of Eternal Light," a mountaintop near the Moon's north pole in constant, year-round sunlight. Peaks of Eternal Light are prime real estate for solar-powered Moon bases."

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  1. Re:Peak of Eternal Light by geekoid · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Don't be ab ass. Everyone understands that.
    Geez.

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  2. Re:Peak of Eternal Light by geekoid · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ok. Be prepared to get sued if you sell it with that advertising!

    If you go through life maknig a pointless pendantic correction, you will be an irritating ass eho gives nerds a bad reputation.

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  3. uh, what was that? by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ok, so you build a spaceship that costs a zillion billion trillion quadrillion googleplexes of dollars to build, and then send it up into outer space, and when the friggin thing is about to crash because your department of aeronautics doesn't know what the fog it's doing, you publicly exclaim that it was a grand success?! What in the fsck is going through your head?!

  4. Re:Peak of Eternal Light by Tweekster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You win the award for being the most anal person every...
    I am willing to bet you are single.

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