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WASHINGTON —  Take that, moon! NASA bulldozed two spacecraft into the lunar south pole Friday morning in a search for hidden ice. Instruments confirm that a large empty rocket hull barreled into the moon at 7:31 a.m., followed 4 minutes later by a probe with cameras taking pictures of the first crash. But initial photos show that the moon didn't give the reaction to the double jabs that NASA expected. And the public definitely didn't get the live explosive views they may have anticipated from the mission called LCROSS, short for Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite. Screens got fuzz and...

Moon probe set for white-knuckle descent By Richard Black BBC science correspondent, in Seattle Scientists have been giving details of the Huygens space probe, which is due to land on Saturn's moon Titan in just under a year's time. The probe, a joint mission between the US and European space agencies, will focus on the oily oceans which researchers believe cover much of the surface. Huygens marks a new stage in man's quest to explore the Solar System. It will be the first time that a craft has landed on a moon other than our own. Depending on where it...