LCROSS Lunar Impact |
LCROSS Lunar Impact |
Oct 9 2009, 02:19 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
T minus 9 hrs. 10 min till impact. NASA TV coverage begins @ 1015 GMT (0315 PDT). Link to coverage here.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Oct 11 2009, 01:37 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
As (sort of) a member of "the media," I feel like I should speak up here. I had figured that people with telescopes on the smaller end of the scale probably wouldn't see anything. But given that there was a big effort to organize amateur astronomers (or at least provide plenty of relevant, up-to-the-minute information to them), and the organized events run at bigger observatories, I never, ever, once imagined that the biggest telescopes on the planet wouldn't be able to see anything. Frankly I'm still surprised and confused about the fact that even Palomar didn't see squat. I think it's totally reasonable to be surprised about that.
From my point of view, reporting on this event, I was never particularly interested in the view from telescopes of any size. I was wholly focused on the shepherd spacecraft. Everything seemed to function spectacularly. And yet there was basically no indication of any impact on the screen. Even the people doing the color commentary for NASA TV were confused about that. We were all geared up for a climax that never came. When you get excited, and expect something that doesn't come, you're disappointed. That's basically the definition of disappointment!! And I think there's no incompatibility between understanding that the mission was successful and still being disappointed about the lack of any sign that the impact happened during the live event. --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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