Impact landing on the Moon
ESApod, audio and video from space
English - August 29, 2006 08:00 - 4 minutes - 21.5 MB Video - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingScience Technology science ariane astronauts astronomy black hole comet earth envisat ers-2 ground station Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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SMART-1's instruments have been sending back brilliant new pictures of the Moon and have been looking for clues to how the Moon was formed - perhaps in a collision between the young Earth and another planet, billions of years ago. Telescopes on Earth hope to catch the final moments of the mission as SMART-1 impacts the Moon.At the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt the mission controllers use SMART-1's small controlling thrusters in a clever way to make sure it crashes where astronomers can see the impact.So even as it meets its doom, SMART-1 will put on a show for watchers on the Earth.
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