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Big Damn Music: Shoot the Moon

Posted by mistergroonk in Music, Science, Space on October 12, 2009

In effort to appeal to The Moon‘s better nature after NASA flew the SUV-sized LCROSS into a polar region crater in search fo that ever elusive for human survival water we created a visual mixtape. Four songs pertaining to la luna, or science or just the generalities of being human. No matter how accommodating she was about the event; dive bombing the heck out of the lunar landscape, even such a small piece, demands a small bit of recompense.

Unsure on whether to delve into the audio/visual You Tube compilation with both feet? Calm those uncertain nerves by dipping below the cut.
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LCROSS: Terror in the Sky! Mad NASA Scientists to Attack the Moon: Oct. 9, 2009 6:30 AM CDT

Posted by mistergroonk in Just Freaking Neat, Science, Space, USA on October 8, 2009

LCROSS-rocketstyle

LCROSS was made by man.

LCROSS launched with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on June 18, 2009 at 2:32 p.m. PDT.

Because water was found on the moon.

The LCROSS shepherding spacecraft and the Atlas V’s Centaur upper stage rocket executed a fly-by of the moon on June 23, 2009 (LCROSS lunar swingby video stream coverage) and entered into an elongated Earth orbit to position LCROSS for impact on a lunar pole.

NASA has a plan:

On final approach, the shepherding spacecraft and Centaur will separate. The Centaur will act as a heavy impactor to create a debris plume that will rise above the lunar surface. Projected impact at the lunar South Pole is currently: Oct 9, 2009 at 4:30 a.m. PDT. Following four minutes behind, the shepherding spacecraft will fly through the debris plume, collecting and relaying data back to Earth before impacting the lunar surface and creating a second debris plume.

The debris plumes are expected to be visible from Earth- and space-based telescopes 10-to-12 inches and larger.

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