To: Lunatic Fringe
Sounds like what we did over forty years ago withthe Ranger series.
To: jmcenanly
Except the Ranger series did not use ion propulsion, have a three year mission and gather the data this spacecraft did.
But OTOH, Ranger was 40 years ago.
71 posted on
09/03/2006 10:30:32 AM PDT by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: jmcenanly
Ranger did not orbit the moon but augered in. They attempted to take the last image just before impact. I don't recall what the closest image was, but it was a few feet.
75 posted on
09/03/2006 11:28:16 AM PDT by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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