LCROSS **updated**

So about an hour ago NASA crashed a spacecraft into the south pole of the moon, their explanation for this, is that they are looking for water.  When the space craft hit the moon it was supposed to be traveling at over 5000 miles per hour and creat a big explosion that would send Lunar Dust flying 6.2 miles off the surface of the moon so that a second spacecraft could collect the data and hopefully find traces of water/ice before it plumits into the same crater 4 minutes later.  But when the impact happened there was no explosion and there was no cloud of lunar dust 6.2 miles into space.  Their explantion for this is that "The spacecraft may have landed in a lake, or an ice sheeet or been engulfed in gloopy mud..."

Originally posted by sickboogiemurder So about an hour ago NASA crashed a spacecraft into the south pole of the moon, their explanation for this, is that they are looking for water.  When the space craft hit the moon it was supposed to be traveling at over 5000 miles per hour and creat a big explosion that would send Lunar Dust flying 6.2 miles off the surface of the moon so that a second spacecraft could collect the data and hopefully find traces of water/ice before it plumits into the same crater 4 minutes later.  But when the impact happened there was no explosion and there was no cloud of lunar dust 6.2 miles into space.   Any second now we sound know if there water on the moon as I read it was only supposed to take an hour process.   What do you guys' think about this?

NEATO!!

Originally posted by COKKENBALLS If it was supposed to send dust particles 6.2 miles into the atmosphere, why didn't it send mud or water into the atmoshpere?

I agree. Even if there is no oxygen to support a sick Deathstar-like explosion, sh1t should have gone everywhere.

Unless. . . It flew into a swamp like on dagobah(sp?)

oh I haven't heard about this, very interesting