Making one giant thud for mankind
China Daily | Updated: 2009-10-10 08:44
An artist's rendering of NASA's double strike at the moon, just before impact. Courtesy photo |
WASHINGTON: Searching for stocks of water on the moon, NASA crashed two spacecraft into an eternally dark lunar crater on Friday, hoping to splash ice into the light where instruments could assess it. But the big live public splash people anticipated didn't quite happen.
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