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| LCROSS Lunar Impacts Viewing a Disappointment | 10.09.2009 10:15 |
| If you got up earlier than usual to watch the LCROSS spacecraft impacts live online, or even with a 10+ inch telescope, you might be regretting the sacrifice of sleep because the impact did not produce the expected "bang". I didn't have any regrets, because it was neat watching the footage of the final moments before impact from the front row vantage point of the LCROSS spacecraft itself. Knowing that it was happening at that very moment is just fascinating. So what now? Fortunately, it's not over yet. What we saw was only the successive images from one of the cameras (and a little bit from the infrared sensor). There is still much more data that was captured before the spacecraft's ending and downlinked to Earth, which is yet to be processed, evaluated, and disseminated. Also, many professional astronomers were utilizing the most technologically advanced ground-based telescopes to image the impact. Finally, the Hubble telescope and LRO spacecraft were also pointed at the Cabeus crater. All of these images have yet to be processed and distributed as well, and I cannot wait! If you want to be notified by email as soon as more results are released, enter your email in the form below: (Of course, we all hate spam so all you will be sent is only what you want) | |
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Palomar 200 inch telescope image of crater 11 seconds post impact | |
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