(Artist's rendering of SMART-1 craft, sent by NASA
to crash into the moon.)
by KYW's Paul Kurtz
NASA successfully slammed two spacecraft into the lunar surface on Friday in a search for hidden ice, but the "moon bombs" did not live up to their hype.
The first crash was supposed to pack a wallop equal to the force of 1.5 tons of TNT, but it failed to kick up the enormous cloud of debris and ice that experts had expected to see.
Franklin Institute chief astronomer Derrick Pitts (right) was underwhelmed but remains optimistic:
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