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CRASH on the MOON

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Channel: ezfishfinder · 2011 · Education

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CRASH on the MOON. 
The Rangers were a series of impact probes designed to fly to the moon and intentionally collide with it, returning images of the surface and the approaching impact. Despite the lab's spectacular success with the Mariners to Venus and Mars, JPL had enormous troubles with its Rangers, which were essentially identical to the early Mariners in design.
Rangers 1 through 6 all failed. Ranger 7 was the first to work properly, impacting the moon on July 31, 1964, and returning imagery much higher in resolution than possible from Earth. These images showed Apollo planners that finding a truly smooth landing site for the astronauts would be a difficult challenge. The moon seemed to have rocks everywhere they looked. Two more Rangers reached the moon before the program ended. 
Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

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