Last Friday, NASA crashed two rockets into the moon to search for signs of ancient water.
The LRCOSS mission crashed into the moon early in the morning on Friday, Oct. 9. The mission was launched on June 19 and orbited the Earth several times before proceeding to the moon.
The thinking behind the mission is that, if there is going to be further exploration of the moon, there needs to be readily available resources, like water. The deep craters in the southern hemisphere may have ice in them, according to Dr. Kent Montgomery, planetarium director.
Public sentiment towards the mission was extensive. Some people thought that crashing into the moon might blow it up or push it off course.
“Anytime you’re talking about the moon people react differently,” Montgomery said.
Many people watched the mission on the Internet as well as watched it on the news, but some people thought it wasn’t worth the hype.
“It was pretty anticlimactic, but interesting,” Katie London, KETR personality said.
Some students did not watch it or even know about it for various reasons.
“I was at work and didn’t even know about it,” Rebecca Nock, junior criminal justice major said.
The mission’s data is still coming in and will take a few weeks to analyze and properly identify all the fragments ejected in the plume from the moon’s surface.