The final resting place of Europe's first moon orbiter has been found at long last.
Astronomer Phil Stooke, of Western University in Ontario, discovered the 65-foot-long (20 meters) scar gouged into the lunar surface by the SMART-1 spacecraft when its controllers brought it down intentionally in September 2006 .
Stooke spotted the mark in images captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Its location sell withexpected site of the spacecraft's grave, he said. [ The Greatest Moon Crashes of All Time ]
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Now that it's been found I wonder what the next step will be. Trying some sort of recovery?