On Friday, October 9th NASA launched two spacecrafts to crash into a crater on the moon in search of water. There were two steps involved in this process. First, the two ton rocket crashed into a dark and cold crater near the moons south pole. The second spacecraft followed the rocket and tried to collect data that flew up from the debris of the crash to detect if there was water in the moon. The trailing craft also recorded a video of the explosion. Although the explosion did not create a huge splash of water NASA was able to collect the data they needed. Overall, it is not yet definite if the moon contains ice but we are getting closer and closer to the answer everyday.
This article is very appealing because it's interesting that there could be stuff out there that we would never know about. I also wonder if life could survive on the moon. Last year in class we did many things relating to space such as recording the moon phase each day (full, Crescent).
Video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hteb-7iejA&feature=fvw
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