Cabeus Crater, impact zone for LCROSS mission
When NASA smashed an expensive satellite and rocket into the moon, many people wondered why the space agency would do such a thing.
Then on October 9, with hundreds of thousands of people watching, the big plume of dirt and ice that would indicate a successful mission was barely a blip on the radar.
So what happened? Well, it’s still early too tell what the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite picked up when a centaur rocket smashed into a crater on the lunar south pole.
But NASA is saying the mission was a success. Now scientists just have to sift through the mountain of data to determine what they have.
