While the collision was an accident, it is a unique scientific gift for planetary geologists that could provide important data for future space missions.
The Soviet probe Luna 2 was the first, followed over the decades by Nasa's Ranger probes in the 1960s, several Apollo-era rocket stages, and more recently the LCROSS mission in 2009, which was delibe… [+38 chars]
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