Nasa: The 'bombing' Moon successfully

NASA said the " bombing " of missiles and satellites on the Moon on October 9 was successful, producing enough dust to allow scientists to determine if there is water on the Moon.

On the morning of October 9, NASA stabbed the Centaur rocket and satellite. Touch and observe the Moon Crater (LCROSS) on the Moon's surface, in a mission costing $ 79 million. NASA gave live broadcast of LCROSS when it crashed near the south pole of the Moon.

Minutes before the impact, the satellite led a rocket to hit the surface of the Moon first to create enough dust for LCROSS to look for whether there is water in the Moon's soil.

The first image of the Moon by LCROSS October 9 was announced by NASA.

The upper floor of the rocket crashed into the Moon just after 7:30 am (US time) and the satellite plunged four minutes later with the cameras shooting the first collision.

But a ' dusty rain ' incident as everyone expected did not happen. The screen is noisy and there are no photos of the collision yet. No columns of dust and smoke as high as 10km rise as one would expect. Most NASA photos announced at a press conference followed by the crash.

However, NASA scientists are still happy and call the ' bombing ' case a success. ' We already have the necessary data to finally be able to answer the question we have asked ,' said Anthony Colaprete, principal investigator for the LCROSS mission.

However, the LCROSS project manager Dan Andrews said it would take some time to analyze all the satellite data obtained and make the conclusion whether water exists on the Moon or not. But he is also optimistic that ' satellite exploration has performed spectacularly '.