MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Two U.S. spacecraft hit the moon Friday, successfully crashing into a crater on the moon's southern axis to test for water ice on the celestial body.
Minutes after the rocket created a hole about 65 feet wide and 10 feet deep in the Cabeus crater, instruments aboard the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite analyzed a 6-mile debris plume and sent its observations back to Earth before it also slammed into the same crater, The New York Times reported.