00:00On this day in space. In 2006, a European satellite named SMART-1 crashed into the moon.
00:08This wasn't actually as disastrous as it sounds, because the spacecraft did it on purpose.
00:13SMART-1 launched in 2003 and was the first European spacecraft to go to the moon.
00:17It was also the first mission of a program called Small Missions for Advanced Research and Technology,
00:22which was a series of low-cost spacecraft that the European Space Agency launched to test new spaceflight technologies.
00:28SMART-1's primary objective was to do a flight test of something called solar electric primary propulsion, or a solar-powered electric engine.
00:35While it orbited the moon for almost two years, it looked for water, ice, and other chemicals on the lunar surface.
00:41When it slammed into the moon, that was also for science. Astronomers back on Earth watched the impact with their telescopes,
00:47hoping that it would give them some insight into the mechanics of meteor impacts.
00:50And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:58We've got folks that staring into the moon, just like in the air life as the moon saw...
01:00... глаза waves caught...
01:01strives the head, just like the moon saw...
01:02...sefach풍 before he 500 decisions in the air.
01:03We can see the moon saw in the air.
01:04We can see the moon saw the moon ribbon here.
01:05It's a cool light that appears to be working towards the sun.
01:07We put an air together against гейств.
01:08We panting at...
01:09It's an operating structure here the sun was not a new Junörer black numeric.
01:11entries in the air to the sun...
01:12We could see the Earth was that this house, this house completely can reflect on
01:15laquelle BLM will kill us many свет colder meters in the sun...
01:18Поaine as the sun as possible reliable, буд asteroids at the moon broadest power...
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