We're deliberately going to crash the moon? Say it ain't so!
Scientists at NASA are preparing for some "Earth on Moon Violence" in an effort to yield potentially useful information about our moon. Scientists hope they can decipher if perhaps hydrogen is on the moon in the form of frozen water. By examining the craters on the moon and what's on them, scientists are getting a chance to study the earliest records of our solar system in an effort to compose a more complete picture.
Scientists are priming two spacecraft to slam into the moon's South Pole to see if the lunar double whammy reveals hidden water ice.
The Earth-on-moon violence may raise eyebrows, but NASA's history shows that such missions can yield extremely useful scientific observations.
"I think that people are apprehensive about it because it seems violent or crude, but it's very economical," said Tony Colaprete, the principal investigator for the mission at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.
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-Ryan
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