[Charismatic]

Ok where did I go wrong. I watched the sloosh and youtube versions of 10 minute long impact video. I saw a waving moon at the same distance for 10 minutes straight.

I saw no impact, no explosion or anything. Just a shimering moon.

What did i miss?
Any short versions of the exact clip of what happened?

[Kosh]

And this mission wasn't about proving "water on the Moon" in general so much as it was about proving the existence of significant amounts of ice in the permanently-dark regions of polar craters.

It was about that. They're just saying something different now cause they're annoyed the Indians beat them by a few weeks.

Except that the instrument on the Indian satellite that discovered it was NASA-built, and the corroborating evidence was provided by two NASA probes, with Cassini's observations taking place ten years ago.

Actually 6 out of 11 components were "gifts" from foreign space agencies. When someone on the universetoday comments section in the article about the India probe's premature demise said "it showed us what a creative nation can do", I wondered how does having more than 50% of your probe not even be yours make you creative.......

[karajorma]

Actually 6 out of 11 components were "gifts" from foreign space agencies. When someone on the universetoday comments section in the article about the India probe's premature demise said "it showed us what a creative nation can do", I wondered how does having more than 50% of your probe not even be yours make you creative.......

Figuring out how to get other nations to pay for your space program is pretty creative.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I saw no impact, no explosion or anything. Just a shimering moon.

They say you need a very powerful telescope in order to see what was going on.

[Kosh]

Actually 6 out of 11 components were "gifts" from foreign space agencies. When someone on the universetoday comments section in the article about the India probe's premature demise said "it showed us what a creative nation can do", I wondered how does having more than 50% of your probe not even be yours make you creative.......

Figuring out how to get other nations to pay for your space program is pretty creative.

lol, true, although it doesn't help to advance your nations tech capability.

[Janos]

Actually 6 out of 11 components were "gifts" from foreign space agencies. When someone on the universetoday comments section in the article about the India probe's premature demise said "it showed us what a creative nation can do", I wondered how does having more than 50% of your probe not even be yours make you creative.......

Figuring out how to get other nations to pay for your space program is pretty creative.

lol, true, although it doesn't help to advance your nations tech capability.

Yes, you have to pay 15 gold per year to research Future Tech

[watsisname]

Ok where did I go wrong. I watched the sloosh and youtube versions of 10 minute long impact video. I saw a waving moon at the same distance for 10 minutes straight.

I saw no impact, no explosion or anything. Just a shimering moon.

What did i miss?
Any short versions of the exact clip of what happened?

Your question's already been answered earlier in this thread, but here's the rundown.  Impact occured exactly as planned, but the ejecta plume was nowhere near as prominent as had been hoped.  The flash of impact was recorded though and there's data from LRO and a few other observing platforms, which is still being analyzed.  We'll find out more when they make another announcement.

[Charismatic]

AE and watsisname: Thanks for the replies.

I find it funny that if 'you need a better telescope to see whats going on'... why they had a 10 minute video of (almost) nothing then.
But I'll have to re watch to see the ..impact flash? (something watsisname  stated)

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Think about it this way: the moon is very small, smaller than a ping-pong ball, so if NASA wanted to achieve a visible impact, they'll need to blow up at least half the moon for it to be visible to the naked eye and some regular telescopes. they were also aiming for a crater if I remember correctly, so I think the effects are much lesser because most of it is contained within that crater.

[watsisname]

Update!  

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/LCROSS_impact.html

"There is a clear indication of a plume of vapor and fine debris," said Colaprete. “Within the range of model predictions we made, the ejecta brightness appears to be at the low end of our predictions and this may be a clue to the properties of the material the Centaur impacted.”
...
"With the spacecraft returning data until virtually the last second, the thermal and near-infrared cameras returned excellent images of the Centaur impact crater at a resolution of less than 6.5 feet (2 m). The images indicate that the crater was about 92 feet (28 m) wide."

Images of the impact here:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/LCROSS_impact_images.html


edit:  durr, I'm tired.  Fixed the link.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

My title bar says "Imageshack - orionsketch3zo1.jpg" when I view that image.