News: NASA to blow up moon.

Link.

Not the plan but you know how these things go.

LCROSS may be one of NASA's most participatory missions. If the spacecraft launches on schedule at 12:51 p.m. Wednesday, it would hit the moon in the early morning hours of Oct. 8. The cloud from the 350 metric tons of debris kicked up by the Centaur booster should spread six miles above the surface of the moon, hitting the sunlight and making it visible to amateur astronomers across North America. The space agency is enlisting telescopes around the country to help monitor the impact.

The idea is to see if there is water on the moon.  In the moon.  Whatever.  Shoot a rocket into the moon, blast material six miles up, see what's in it.

This is a bit like when I lose my keys and throw everything in my room into the air.

Good luck, NASA.

(via Geekologie)