I left my house at 3am this morning and drove to NASA Ames to join a couple hundred others to watch the LCROSS impact. We were bundled up against the cold, but there was excitement in the air. Around 4:30ish, all eyes were glued to the large screen and we saw… something? nothing? It was hard to tell.

As people were packing up—some had been there all night—Ty and Nick (part of the SiA team) called from Mount Diablo.They had camped out all night with a camera and a telescope to capture the action.

“Did you get it?” I asked.

“I think so.” They couldn’t tell either.

I sat in the media tent afterward and that seemed to be the feeling all around– what exactly happened? Where was the plume, the ejecta cloud we were promised?

Spectra shows that something happened. And images are trickling in… stay tuned. We’ll have more for you next week.

-Molly