Mission folks at NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) are preparing for the lunar orbiter’s eventual fall to the lunar surface. In anticipation they have created a contest where one predicts the date, hour, and minute when the spacecraft impacts the lunar surface.
Click here for information about the contest. Use the links below to read earlier postings about the LADEE mission and others.
Click here to go to the Qué tal in the Current Skies web site for more observing information for this month.
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