Monday, June 22

Fast ride into…?

By way of YouTube’s JAXA Channel comes this movie of a spacecraft carrying out its last assignment—crashing into the moon. In its last minute of existence, it skims the surface, seeming to almost touch, but no—maybe it’ll hit the next crater rim—no, maybe the next. Finally it hits a totally black space. The flash of collision was seen in Australia. Space Weather, the Web site, has really nifty stuff just about every day.

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