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EU Craft Successfully Hits The Moon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-you-said-to-turn-left! dept.

An anonymous reader writes "SMART-1 has hit the Moon , just as planned and — even better — the impact threw out a bright infrared that was seen by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii. There's an animation of the images grabbed by the telescope. Scientists now hope to analyse the chemistry of the rock ejected by the crash. If only you could dump old cars in such a useful way."

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  1. Ion drive by Adelbert · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This can only be seen as great news for the ion drive. SMART-1 spiralled around the Moon exactly as planned, and was targetted at the Sea of Excellence with utmost precision. Perhaps we'll be seeing more probes with tiny amounts of fuel in the near future...?

  2. Re:How does one unsuccessfully hit the moon? by Zo0ok · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Attach a stone in the end of string. Hold the string and make the stone cirkle around your hand. Now try to make the stone hit your hand. Very easy, right?

  3. Re:Mr. Show by Andrew+Kismet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You notice it's always "WE landed on the moon", but "the government" is fucking up things? "OUR team scored! Hooray!" at the start of the match, but "I can't believe THEY lost" at the end...?

    Just an interesting observation. I call it "inclusive gain" and "exclusive loss".