Indeed, Earth and space-based telescopes couldn’t see it at the time, but there was, in fact, a dusty plume that got kicked up by the kamikaze LCROSS probe. Success!
That said, there’s still no word on whether or not water or aliens or cheese were present in the plume. Perhaps it was a combination of all three, and that’s the reason for NASA’s silence thus far (more seriously, NASA says results by “mid-November”).
Next time, just to be sure, I think NASA should shoot something a bit bigger into the Moon for better results. Something like, say, Richard Heene’s ego. [New Scientist]
Robert Lachance
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 6:23 AMso tell me who thought that this was a good idea?
with the economy in such dire straits and unemployment at an all time high you got nothing to do but spend how much to do this? are you kidding me ,realy come on man think with your heart not your imagination that was a dumb move and did you think about possible knocking the moon off its axis and do know any thing else about what was or could go wrong with the moon doing this? i think you need to stop spending money on something that the American people dont need and try to put it to better uses thanks concerned American