Fox News: NASA takes first ever video of dark side of the moon

[spacemaverick]

Well, it has been said that NASA forgot how to go to the moon.  A shift in gravity?  How could that happen?  I am not a scientist or engineer so I would not understand.  Something on the inside of the moon affecting moon gravity?  If you have enough gravity, then you can retain some sort of atmosphere, correct?  I believe I might need some more of an education on this.  I have listened to what John said and understand parts of it but find it hard to go against all I have been taught in school and college.  Maybe I was not taught the truth?

If there was a shift in gravity, would that change the point where moon gravity takes over from earth gravity with regards to the affect on spacecraft? (Don't remember the term used)

I think they may lost the data.  Rod

[zerocd]

Can't find much technical documentation of why grayscale cheese has lumpy gravity.

looks like cheap white plastic in the new vid.


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[WeekendWarrior]

   Hey! Has anyone of you seen the China's "highest resolution" images of moon yet? Im interested if they also has smoothened the moon surface as NASA obviously has done?

[dreb13]

update 12/17/2012 - Grail probes Ebb and Flow due to crash into the moon tonight!.....as planned


Twin NASA spacecraft to plunge into lunar mountain

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ebb and Flow chased each other around the moon for nearly a year, peering into the interior. With dwindling fuel supplies, the twin NASA spacecraft are ready for a dramatic finish.

On Monday, they will plunge — seconds apart — into a mountain near the moon's north pole. It's a carefully choreographed ending so that they don't end up crashing into the Apollo landing sites or any other place on the moon with special importance.

Skywatchers on Earth won't be able to view the double impacts since they will occur in the dark.

"We're not putting out an all-points bulletin to amateur astronomers to get their telescopes out," said mission chief scientist Maria Zuber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Earthlings may be shut out of the spectacle, but the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter circling the moon will pass over the crash site and attempt to photograph the skid marks left by the washing machine sized-spacecraft as they slam into the surface at 3,800 mph.

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Secrets long held by the moon are spilling out. Ebb and Flow discovered that the lunar crust is much thinner than scientists had imagined. And it was severely battered by asteroids and comets in the early years of the solar system — more than previously realized.

Data so far also appeared to quash the theory that Earth once had two moons that collided and melded into the one we see today.

http://news.yahoo.com/twin-nasa-spacecraft-plunge-lunar-mountain-084036160.html