A smash show at the moon's south pole
Thursday, October 8, 2009 - 00:14
in Astronomy & Space
On the moon, a rocket strike will aid the hunt for ice. On Earth, amateur astronomers plan viewing parties. In the pre-dawn hours Friday, while those on the West Coast still snooze, a rocket is scheduled to punch a 13-foot-deep hole in a crater at the moon's south pole that hasn't seen sunlight in billions of years. The purpose: to find out...