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Crash Landing

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http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/quest/2009/06/2009-06-01-quest.mp3

NASA scientists in Mountain View are building a spaceship they will deliberately crash into the moon in 2009, sending up a 37-mile high cloud of debris. Their goal? To possibly find water in the form of ice buried deep within one of the moon's poles.

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