Decades-Old Soviet Reflector Spotted On the Moon

cremeglace writes "No one had seen a laser reflector that Soviet scientists had left on the moon almost 40 years ago, despite years of searching. Turns out searchers had been looking kilometers in the wrong direction. On 22 April, a team of physicists finally saw an incredibly faint flash from the reflector, which was ferried across the lunar surface by the Lunokhod 1 rover. The find comes thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which last month imaged a large area where the rover was reported to have been left. Then the researchers, led by Tom Murphy of the University of California, San Diego, could search one football-field-size area at a time until they got a reflection."

Comments

Re:Da!

[The_Wilschon]

And the original would be "In America, tcheloviek shave with moon on mirror"? I don't think I get this one.

Re:In Soviet Russia

[shentino]

Well space IS a vacuum...

Re:Why is this a surprise?

[geekprime]

If I had two mod points, I'd give you one.

Sarah Palin is an Astronaut

[Vitriol Angst]

Since Sarah Palin can see the moon from her house... ... AND, since she can possibly see herself from the moon from her house with a strong enough Telescope....

It's obvious now that she can be an expert on herself and the moon. I know what you are thinking, and I'm not sure if a mirror in her house would suffice for the "Expert" conveyance, it has been shown to require a horizon and a distance "more than a stone's throw." If there is an upper limit to the "expert vision" phenomena, then that will require further study.

Re:Why is this a surprise?

[Thing 1]

I find it amusing that you did not mention Offtopic, and that's what your post got. In fact, I don't find it amusing or Funny, I actually find it somewhat Insightful -- into the minds of the mods.