NASA Takes Aim at Moon with Double Sledgehammer

P.S
The Wikipedia article on Shackleton got it wrong.What's new:

Ernest Shackleton was born on 15 February 1874, in Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland, about 48 kilometres (30 mi) from Dublin.

Correction:
The town was Kilkee.
The County was Clare.
and the distance 120 miles or so..

(Off topic I know.)

SMART-1, that was the one I was trying to remember.

The “Moontoday” article about SMART-1 also has a mistake in it.
Quote:
“AMIE obtained this image on 13 January 2006 - close to the time of lunar southern Summer - from a distance of 646 kilometres over the surface and with a ground resolution of 60 metres per pixel.”

The moon doesn’t have any real “summer”.

The spin axis of the Moon is very nearly in the same plane as the normal to the orbit of the Moon about the Earth and the normal to the Earth's orbit about the Sun.
See:
www.iop.org/EJ/article/1538-3881/131/3/1864/204858.text.html

Off topic again!

Space probes etc have been slamming into planets etc for yrs.

Why not hit the moon.

Probably cheaper then sending an imaging probe which probably wouldnt give us as much info back.