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Crash Into the Moon With LCROSS Friday Morning

Tomorrow morning you’ll have a rare opportunity to experience a live moon crash. At 7:31 a.m. EDT, NASA’s LCROSS satellite will send a rocket hurtling toward the moon at a whopping 1.55 miles per second, and a camera mounted on the spacecraft will send live footage back to Earth. Four minutes later, the entire satellite […]

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Tomorrow morning you'll have a rare opportunity to experience a live moon crash. At 7:31 a.m. EDT, NASA's LCROSS satellite will send a rocket hurtling toward the moon at a whopping 1.55 miles per second, and a camera mounted on the spacecraft will send live footage back to Earth. Four minutes later, the entire satellite will smack into the moon, generating a giant plume of debris that should be visible from our planet with an amateur telescope.

To find out how and where to watch the carnage, check out the posts by our friends at GeekDad:

  1. Ways to See LCROSS Crash on Friday Morning
  2. Moon Shot Part Deux: Even More Ways of Observing the LCROSS Impact ...Image: Northrup Grumman

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