Monday, October 12, 2009

A whimper of a crash, a wealth of data

October 10, 2009 - Honolulu Star Bulletin
NASA's rocket shot to the moon fizzled as a spectacular cosmic show, but the chief investigator said it produced a "wealth of data" scientists are analyzing in search of water.
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But there wasn't much to see, said Peter Michaud, Gemini Observatory spokesman. "It was not what everyone hoped it would be. ... It was fairly subtle. "A little crater was formed," he added. "It (the spacecraft) did what it was supposed to do. It just didn't throw up as much stuff as people would have liked."
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