LADEE Extended
NASA Extends LADEE Moon Exploring Satellite Mission
“NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, or LADEE, observatory has been approved for a 28-day mission extension. The spacecraft is now expected to impact the lunar surface on or around April 21, 2014, depending on the final trajectory. The extension provides an opportunity for the satellite to gather an additional full lunar cycle worth of very low-altitude data to help scientists unravel the mysteries of the moon’s atmosphere.”
Have the Ladee experimenters provided any clue on how much impact the Chinese lander had on their results?
I had read that they did not detect anything from the landing event. Another question is whether they have seen any of the dust spires that were seen by the Apollo astronaut. This was the prime motive for LADEE but there has been no issuance of re-discovery of this phenomenon. I suspect nothing has been seen.