NASA Moon Bombing Mission

NASA decided to BOMB the moon and will do it on Friday, October 9, 2009. They have put together computer animation to show what about look-like 7:30am Friday. They’re gonna crash rocket into the surface of the moon. It’s gonna visible through even a simple telescope here on earth and then another craft will follow right behind the rough rocket to send live pictures of the huge explosion back here on earth.

The goal of all of this is to see how much water or even ice their might be under the dust and rocks on the surface. This moon bombing mission is costing taxpayers $79 million dollars.

“If you have a telescope trained in the right location, you should be able to see the plume come up and have some brightening over a short amount of time,” said Jennifer Heldmann, the LCROSS observation campaign coordinator at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.

“And then you’ll see that, as the plume settles back down onto the lunar surface, it will become fainter and more diffuse, and then it will disappear again.”

Watch the animated clip shows what NASA expects to happen.

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