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KAGUYA’s last images

Published on 20 Jun 2009 at 3:36 pm. No Comments.
Filed under moon, space exploration.

Japan’s KAGUYA (formerly SELENE) probe crashed into the surface of the Moon as planned this past week.  Like many space probes to the Moon, the last action commanded from Earth was to crash into the Moon.  This is in part a safety move to make sure that the dead spacecraft does not pose a hazard […]

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