Monday, September 04, 2006
The SMART-1 lunar search crashed into the Moon right on cue on Sunday morning. Mission controllers at the European Space Agency went contact with the probe at 0542 GMT, representing that it had struck slam to the planned landing site on the lunar "Lake of Excellence".
"We're very happy and very excited, the team is rejoicing," said SMART-1 project scientist Bernard Foing, speaking from the mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
SMART-1 had been path and studying the Moon since late 2005 and will have crashed onto the Moon anyway. So near the end of the mission controllers pinch its orbit so it will crash on the nearside of the Moon where the bang will be visible to ground-based telescopes.
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