Nasa bombs the Moon creating new dimple… but where was the flash?

Nasa bombs the Moon creating new dimple… but where was the flash? | Mail Online.

It was billed as one of the most ambitious missions in the history of space exploration.

But Nasa’s audacious attempt to smash two spacecraft into the surface of Moon in the search for water turned into a damp squib for millions of people today.

The £49million ‘bombing raid’ was supposed to create a six-mile high cloud of dust that would be visible from telescopes on the Earth.

But live pictures relayed back from the Moon showed no sign of an impact – even though both craft dived into a darkened crater as planned.

Nasa scientists were today analysing the data and images sent back to the Earth to find tell trace traces of ice in the debris.