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NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer spacecraft slammed into the moon. With impact at 3,600 miles per hour, the vending-machine-size spacecraft, called Ladee broke up into pieces that heated up to hundreds of degrees and vaporized.
Unevenness in the strength of the moon’s gravity jostled the elliptical orbit. Radio signals from the spacecraft abruptly cut off just as it passed over to the far side of the moon. Mission managers believe that is the moment when it ran into a crater rim . The crash brought to a end a study of the envelope of gases and dust surrounding the moon.

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