Chinese Eat Our Moon Lunch
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 - 21:20
in Astronomy & Space
The Chinese Chang series is taking over the moon. For lunch, NASA people in Florida are heading to bread lines, while meanwhile the Chinese are microwaving the entire moon for their own consumption. Okay, I'll ditch the mixed jingoistic metaphors now and get to what really makes me hungry-- space exploration successes. With 1 down, 1 flying, and several more coming, the Chang program is starting off with strong successes. The ChangE'1 mission mapped the entire moon in microwaves, with data presented at the European Planetary Sciences Congress conference last month (September 2010). read more