Beresheet Spacecraft

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This is the last image taken by the spacecraft.
This Is the Last Photo Israel's Beresheet Moon Lander Ever Took

 

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Yes I acknowledge that but I was wondering who's finger it was, the finger of someone trying to sabotage the mission or a finger of someone who did it by accident...

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That was specified in the article. It they had that information I doubt they would release it.

 

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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photographed Beresheet's crash site.
NASA photographed the crash site of Israel's failed moon lander, and it's not pretty

On April 11, the Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL tried to land a small robot on the surface of the moon. But an errant software command apparently caused the lander's main engine to shut off.

SpaceIL rebooted the spacecraft, called Beresheet, and revived the engine, but it was too late. The spacecraft slammed into the moon, never to be heard from again.

Now, scientists at NASA say they've found the roughly 1,300-pound spacecraft's impact site and photographed it with the agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which constantly captures images of the moon's surface.


New before-and-after pictures taken around April 22 and released on Wednesday reveal the results of Beresheet's high-speed crash. The images from LRO's camera system, called LROC, are shown in the animation below.

"While the spacecraft did land, it first touched the surface about 1,000 meters per second [2,200 mph] faster than intended," Mark Robinson, a lunar researcher at NASA, said in a blog post about the images.

That speed is roughly twice as fast as a bullet shot from a gun. Robinson added that Beresheet came down at a sharp angle, and disintegrated upon impact, leaving a sizable scar on the moon.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRvCItZHiK0

 

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SpaceIL said they'll continue to build Beresheet 2, but use it for a different mission. For now they aren't going to return to the moon.
Israeli team will no longer send a second spacecraft to the Moon