Decades-Old Soviet Reflector Spotted On the Moon 147
cremeglace writes "No one had seen a laser reflector that Soviet scientists had left on the moon almost 40 years ago, despite years of searching. Turns out searchers had been looking kilometers in the wrong direction. On 22 April, a team of physicists finally saw an incredibly faint flash from the reflector, which was ferried across the lunar surface by the Lunokhod 1 rover. The find comes thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which last month imaged a large area where the rover was reported to have been left. Then the researchers, led by Tom Murphy of the University of California, San Diego, could search one football-field-size area at a time until they got a reflection."
Turns out... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why is this a surprise? (Score:5, Funny)
In Soviet Russia...
Nah, too obvious.
footbal-field sized (Score:3, Funny)
is this an imperial unit or what?
Re:Why is this a surprise? (Score:4, Funny)
My god, your logic is impeccable!
I believe that this story is very informative and that we all will get very insightful comments from everyone involved, and some of the posts will be funny, while others may be somewhat redundant, however there always will be a few underrated and overrated commentators, but it is all good as long as it does not lead to any flamebait here. Of-course Trolls are welcome to join the conversation, just as per usual arrangement.
Oh, and the Anonymous Cowards... I see you, I see you and your reflections in the Moon.
Re:footbal-field sized (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Turns out... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:footbal-field sized (Score:3, Funny)
African or European unit?
In Soviet Luna... (Score:2, Funny)
...reflector dish spots YOU!!!
Re:US left a corner reflector as well (Score:5, Funny)
The moon landing was a fake, but it was filmed on the moon. They didn't want you to know that we've had a moon base since 1964.
Re:US left a corner reflector as well (Score:5, Funny)
No you dummy, it was a soundstage on mars.
Re:Why is this a surprise? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, of course, with only 1/6 gravity, using an off the shelf standard velodrome construction, the banking on the track would be totally out of whack.
Re:US left a corner reflector as well (Score:4, Funny)
It's all true:
http://www.vgg.com/tr/tr_102201_moon.html
Zapped (Score:4, Funny)
Re:US left a corner reflector as well (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why is this a surprise? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Turns out... (Score:3, Funny)
It's always in the last place you look.
Re:US left a corner reflector as well (Score:5, Funny)
That's because we game them Nikola Tesla and the location of Atlantis in exchange for their silence on the matter. I'm not sure what we gave them to keep quiet about 9/11; perhaps the location of Tesla's base on Mars after he escaped from Earth.
Re:Ignore the disinfo agents. Here's how it works (Score:4, Funny)
That is all.
Re:US left a corner reflector as well (Score:5, Funny)