Moon's Friends Say 'No' to Future Lunar Crashes
When a NASA spacecraft rammed into the moon in October, it tossed up a hard-to-see plume of lunar material. But the event also stirred an observable cloud of public anxiety and protests in some quarters about "bombing" the moon, a backlash that may hint at a rising "Friends of the Moon" movement. On Oct. 9, the Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) experiment created twin impacts on the moon's surface in a search for water ice. Scientists remain busy at work analyzing data to assess whether water ice was kicked-up by the event. Given a human return to the...
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