As anticlimactic as it was, that was really exciting watching it get closer and closer to the surface. Felt like I was looking through Louie's old C11 up at the Paintball Place a few years ago!
I looked away for a second and it seems I missed out on the most exciting part -- the failed high 5. I'm sure it'll end up on the Failblog.
I believe I saw a bit of a flash in both the visual and the thermal imaging when they replayed it, but no plume.
Actually it might be good news if the impact flash wasn't very bright as it would indicate them hitting something other than hard regolith.
I thought it was very interesting,I was engrossed in watching the impactor gradually getting closer to the moon.
Listening to the voice from science said that a flash had been observed.
the follow up craft seemed to me to fly through something , but weither that was bad resolution I don't know.
One image did show a brighter point but what that was I don't know.
Let's hope there where some good results from Hubble and earth based telescopes
I think they made some aliens very angry. They did cook there breakfest with that pixel. The approach was very interesting and it was a once in a lifetime view of the moon.
I agree there was something small on the thermal image. Definately not what I was expecting though.
What where you expecting?
If you had listened to the scientist who was with the commentary team, there where three scenarios and one of them was little or no dust.
We won't know for a couple of hours what the results where
. They did cook there breakfest with that pixel. The approach was very interesting and it was a once in a lifetime view of the moon.
