After 350 days in orbit, Ebb and Flow have landed on the lunar surface
Posted 12.17.2012 at 7:30 pm
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Ebb and Flow
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After 350 days in lunar orbit, the twin probes Ebb and Flow ended their mission today with a carefully planned dive into a mountain near the moon's north pole. The probes' crash site has been named in honor of Sally Ride, the first American woman in space.
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By studying the moons surface with these probes scientist now say this about the moon and Mars, "These fractures provide a pathway deep inside the planet, and it’s very easy to envision now how a possible ocean at the surface could have found its way deep into the crust of a planet," Zuber said."
Are we going to someday frac the moon and Mars for water by just adding steam, who knows we may find oil?
Ron Bennett
We hit the moon! We hit the moon!
For all those who said we could NOT hit the moon or the side of a barn,..... we HIT THE MOON!
Woo Hoo! TWICE!!! ;)
But they haven't said what the name is.
What is the name of the crash site...?
Hope we didn't destroy any alien spacecraft that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin claimed they saw on the lunar surface before Apollo 11 landed. Ha, maybe that is what triggers the end of our world as we know it on 12-21-2012...
Ron Bennett
it was a carefully choreograph ending so that they don't end up crashing into the Apollo landing sites or any other place on the moon with special importance
I am worried this hit the down alien "TRANSFORMER" ship.....
... so worried.
Of course, I do not think we can impress aliens with a washing machine bombardment, lol..... snort...
I think they would probably ask "What moron spent half a billion dollars for a pair of washing machines just to shoot them at us?"
Seriously though i will be interested to see the findings this project yields.