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LET'S CRASH INTO THE MOON!

I wrote an article on it for my school newspaper. Yeah, I've been waiting for this for months. I'm really into the space program.
 
It wasn't as good as hoped (quality wise) but something like this is science is interesting to me. :D

I hope they found a good amount of ice/water like they hoped, I'll have to check after school.
 
The Centuar hit the moon at Cebeus crater (aprox 84S, 311E) at 11:51UT (22:01 Local SA time). The LCROSS probe impacted 4 minutes later.

The idea of this mission is to reveal if water exists at forever shadowed craters near the moon's south pole. If water is found, it would make a manned and permanent base on the moon much easier and much cheaper too.

How can water be forever trapped at the moon's poles? The moon has axial tilt of just 1.54 degrees with respect to the sun. The earth has an axial tilt of23.46 degrees. At the moon's poles, the sunlight touches the polar region with an angle of maximum on 1.54 degrees, meaning in deep polar craters, the sun will never shine on the bottom of these craters.
 
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