SMART-1 Destination Moon 3rd September

[Whitters]

SMART-1, the successful first European spacecraft to the Moon, is now about to end its exploration adventure, after almost sixteen months of lunar science investigations.

More: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/SMART-1/SEMKTCBUQPE_0.html

[Rick]

Plenty of media reports on this. Here're 3 from ESA:

SMART-1 star tracker views the Moon in earthshine
Impact landing ends SMART-1 mission to the Moon
SMART-1 impacts Moon

...and one from the BBC:

Probe crashes into Moon's surface

[Whitters]

And also http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMBY5BVLRE_index_0.html

[Rick]

ESA seem to be making sure folks see the stories by linking them in several places with different headings... Oh well. The root page for SMART- seems to be here: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/SMART-1/index.html

[Rick]

Dr Anthony Cook of the BAA Lunar section has put up a page of results here:

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~acc/Dems/smart1.htm