Europe's Smart-1 Surveying Moon
The European Space Agency's Smart-1 spacecraft is completing a medium-resolution survey of the Moon this week. It began returning its first close-up images of the Moon (shown) late last month during tests at altitudes of 1,000-5,000 km. (620-3,100 mi.) over the lunar surface. It was the first time...
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