Probe Crash

[v2^]

Hello all,

I heard on the news last night that the probe that has been orbiting the moon and taking pictures was due to crash into the surface this morning.

They said astronomers would be able to see this as it would hit at around 4000 mph or kmh not sure which.

So im wondering f there are any sites which have any images up of this from there scopes.

 

[The_blue]

Should alread have crashed, news 24 said 30 mins to go when i got up at 6am

 

[lookitsjonno]

that's even more rubbish in space

 

[TomaHawk]

Here's the BBC News Article on it, it has a picture of the explosion.. and some diagrams explaining the probes Ion Engine.

 

[monkeypants]

that's even more rubbish in space

To be fair, it's on the moon not actually floating in space. There's also probably loads of cosmic rubbish out there anyway, like space trees and magno-dice.

 

[v2^]

Here's the BBC News Article on it, it has a picture of the explosion.. and some diagrams explaining the probes Ion Engine.

Cool, thanks.

 

[PaulStat]

To be fair, it's on the moon not actually floating in space. There's also probably loads of cosmic rubbish out there anyway, like space trees and magno-dice.

What the hell is a magno-dice, in fact what the hell is a space tree

 

[monkeypants]

What the hell is a magno-dice, in fact what the hell is a space tree

I was merely trying to illustrate the infinite-ness of space. Because it is infinite, anything is possible.

 

[Sleepy]

that's even more rubbish in space

Nope. The probe crashed into the moon, there wasn't enough energy in the crash to eject any material into lunar orbit much less to get it to lunar escape velocities.

 

[Sleepy]

Impact -15s

Impact

Impact +15s You can make out the ejecta from the impact

Images taken in IR, image size: 2' x 2' (or ~200km x 200km)

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