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Kamikaze moon mission kicks up dust, maybe ice?

 
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 2:56 pm    Post subject: Kamikaze moon mission kicks up dust, maybe ice? Reply with quote
In a brute-force search for ice on the moon, an empty 5,000-pound rocket stage traveling twice as fast as a rifle bullet crashed into a permanently shadowed crater near the moon's south pole Friday, presumably blasting out tons of debris for examination by an instrumented probe that carried out its own kamikaze plunge four minu...read more
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