SCIENTISTS hope to make a splash by “bombing” the Moon with two spacecraft tomorrow.
The plan is to slam the projectiles into a dark crater at the lunar south pole, kicking up a six-mile high dust cloud that may contain water.
British researchers helped Nasa pick the spot for the drama, which will be broadcast live on the American space agency’s website.
The Cabeus south polar region was identified by the University of Durham team as a site with high concentrations of hydrogen – a key component of water.
It is believed water ice could lie at the bottom of dark craters at the Moon’s poles, where temperatures are lower than minus 170C.
The spacecraft consists of an orbiter and a 2.2-tonne launch rocket on collision course with the Moon.
