Lunar Prospector smashes into moon's South Pole

NASA's Lunar Prospector impacted on the moon early Saturday, hitting the surface near the South Pole at 5:52 a.m. EDT. NASA said the Lunar Prospector team did not reacquire the signal from Prospector, so it definitely hit the moon, and while no visual sightings of a dust cloud have been reported...

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