Lunar probe found the crash site of satellites kamikaze


Lunar probe LRO managed to take pictures of the crash site vehicles twin GRAIL, which constituted the first gravity map of the moon.
 
Twin probes broke the surface of the Moon / AP
As told reporters Mark Robinson (Mark Robinson), scientific director of the experiments with a high resolution camera LROC aboard the orbiter, at the crash site were craters measuring about 5 meters.

"Look impact craters was not easier than finding a needle in a haystack ... Both (crater) were only 5 meters (in diameter). It is very small, we did not expect to find them, "- said Robinson.

Recall two identical apparatus GRAIL January 2012 examined the gravitational field of the moon, with high precision fixing microscopic abnormalities in the orbital motion of each other.

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