Secrets of the Moon’s Permanent Shadows Are Coming to Light
On October 9, 2009, a two-ton rocket smashed into the moon traveling at 9,000 kilometers per hour. As it exploded in a shower of dust and heated the lunar surface to hundreds of degrees, the jet-black crater into which it plummeted, called Cabeus, briefly filled with light for the first time in billions of years. The crash was no accident. NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite…
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