« Venus ahoy! | Main | To be blunt: Vittle statistics »

Taking a pop at the Moon

NASA hopes smashing space junk into the Moon will throw up water.

Open season on planetary bodies continues as NASA plans to smash a spent rocket stage into the Moon in 2008. The proposal follows the Deep Impact mission, which slammed a space probe into a comet, and a recently announced plan to crash an impactor into Mars (see 'Mars attack!').

Read the story here.

Posted by Nicola Jones on April 11, 2006 12:18 PM |

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://blogs.nature.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/497

Post a comment

Comments will be reviewed by staff before being published. You can be as critical or controversial as you like, but please don't get personal or offensive, and do keep it brief. Excessively long entries may be cropped. Remember this is for feedback and discussion - not for publishing papers or press releases.

We strongly encourage you to use your real, full name. Email addresses are required: this is just in case we need to discuss your comment with you privately. They won’t be published.


Please enter the numbers you see below - this helps us to cut down on spam. Note that attempting to post within 30 seconds of hitting ‘preview’ or ‘post’ can cause the system to think you are spamming the site. If you are having trouble with this system, you can instead e-mail a comment to 'inthefield at nature.com'.

Search