Scientists from NASA are preparing this week for a more difficult and unconventional mission. They will be slamming two of their spacecrafts into the moon’s South Pole in order to find hidden ice water in the lunar double.
NASA is confident that the mission will be successful – but also quite difficult. “I think that people are apprehensive about it because it seems violent or crude, but it’s very economical,” said Tony Colaprete, the principal investigator for the mission at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.