Monday, June 22, 2009

Back to the Moon

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the recent launch of the LRO/LCROSS mission back to the Moon.

(In a related note...let's hope that NASA isn't sitting on a public relations disaster in the making...)

2 comments:

Steven Hart said...

Are those guy wires at the top of the rocket? Or is my screen doing something funny?

Frederick Paul Kiesche III said...

I noticed that as well. I think that you are looking at wires between the camera and the rocket, some sort of debris barrier, maybe? To get a shot that close looking, it is either a telephoto or a auto-camera with some sort of protection!