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Go to topicA sequence of images taken by SMART-1's AMIE camera prior to impact.
The images were taken between 16:55 and 17:34 CEST (14:55-15:34 UT). The sequences show the surface of the Moon passing under SMART-1 during the final orbits and show what a passenger on board the spacecraft would have seen shortly before impact and destruction.