Saturday, 20 April 2019

Beresheet crashed on the moon, but its 'Lunar Library' likely survived

Beresheet crashed on the moon, but its 'Lunar Library' likely survived

Israeli probe Beresheet didn't make it to the moon in one piece, but one of its most intriguing pieces of cargo might have. At this moment, it's possible there's a new crater on the lunar surface created by the spacecraft's crash landing, and in that impact zone is a metal disc containing a full copy of Wikipedia, the history of the world and magician David Copperfield's secrets, among many other things.

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