NASA junkies-live broadcast of moon impact

[golfgal]

The LCross rocket is due to impact the moon in search of ice under the surface shortly. They are covering it live on NASA TV-I am watching it online.

 

[java]

It's so cool! I didn't know I was a NASA junkie. I hope the kids wake up soon to watch with me.

 

[java]

Well that was less than exciting.

 

[golfgal]

Well that was less than exciting.

I was just going to post the same thing. I thought we would at least be able to see the dust ploob. Oh well.

 

[izzy]

I was waiting for Matt Lauer to say (in his best Marvin the Martian voice), "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!"

Darn thing made me 15 minutes late to work, and it wasn't even worth it!

 

[Jennasis]

Whata let down!

 

[diznygirl]

Count us in as underwhelmed. We watched on NASA TV and saw all the back-slapping and hand shakes afterwards. Well, as long as they were happy.

 

[DWGal210]

Yeah, that was a let-down. From what they were saying on the news beforehand, I expected to see a giant poof of Mars-dust. Underwhelmed for sure.

 

[sbell111]

Yeah, that was a let-down. From what they were saying on the news beforehand, I expected to see a giant poof of Mars-dust. Underwhelmed for sure.

Why would you see Mars dust?

 

[sallysmom]

Did you see the Bugs Bunny cartoon they ran later? Now that's more like it!

 

[DarthKTrava]

I was waiting for Matt Lauer to say (in his best Marvin the Martian voice), "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!"

I was at work, so I missed it. Sounds like I didn't miss much....

 

[bicker]

Yeah, that was a let-down. From what they were saying on the news beforehand, I expected to see a giant poof of Mars-dust. Underwhelmed for sure.

I know of folks who were all upset about us "bombing the moon", and perhaps some of that fostered an impression within the media that this was actually going to be a significant celestial event.

 

[diznygirl]

I know of folks who were all upset about us "bombing the moon", and perhaps some of that fostered an impression within the media that this was actually going to be a significant celestial event.

I wasn't expecting a "significant celestial event", but NASA said that a plume of dust would be visible with a telescope - so not seeing anything at all on NASA TV was a teeny tiny bit of a puzzlement. And definitely underwhelming. Based on what NASA said we should see.

 

[bicker]

Strange; I saw a plume of dust on one of the still shots that was posted.