LUNAR IMPACT

NASA has updated the time of Friday morning's lunar impact. The LCROSS booster rocket will plunge into crater Cabeus at 4:31 am PDT (11:31 UT) followed by the LCROSS mothership four minutes later.

no plume, nothing apparently seen by the probe of the first impact !

Disappointing wasnt it!

Hope they release some decent videos when they get their downlink!

having said that, I did see one dot appear in a frame of the IR video, dont know what it was but it didnt look like thermal noise to me, who knows.

Bit of a damp squib.

I called over one of the lads in the office to have a look and - nothing.

Oh well, hopefully the instruments will pick up something.

Michael.

Footage of the LCROSS camera's final few minutes before impact from NASA's Ames Research Centre:


Not really impressive, however, if you do watch it, you do get the last few seconds' glimpse of a few small craters before it goes dead.

Seanie.