Hoje pelas 12:31 e 12:35 de Portugal Continental o LCROSS e módulo Centaur da NASA vão intencionalmente despenhar-se na Lua
Emissão em directo:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/impact/index.html
Emissão em directo:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/impact/index.html
What is actually going on? The 5,000-pound (2,270-kilogram) Centaur is expected to slam into Cabeus at a sharp angle at a speed of 5,600 mph (9,000 kilometers per hour). If all goes according to schedule, the shepherding vehicle, carrying nine science payloads, will follow the Centaur’s plunge into the moon, and send back data live to Earth. The Centaur’s collision is expected to create a crater roughly 60 or 70 feet wide (20 meters wide) and perhaps as much as 16 feet (5 meters) deep, ejecting approximately 385 tons of lunar dust and soil — and hopefully some ice. In addition to recording the collision, the shepherding spacecraft weighing, 1,500-pounds (700-kilograms) will fly through the regolith plume thrown up by the collision, just before it too slams into the lunar surface some four minutes later, kicking up its own smaller plume of debris, all the while using its sensors to look for telltale signs of water.
http://spacefellowship.com/2009/10/08/guide-to-seeing-the-lcross-lunar-impact/