First GRAIL Twin Enters Lunar Orbit – NASA’s New Year’s Gift to Science

Posted by brandoniswrite on January 1, 2012

GRAIL-A spacecraft achieved Lunar Orbit Insertion on New Year’s Eve. Artists concept shows twin GRAIL spacecraft orbiting the Moon. The twin GRAIL spacecraft will fly in tandem to map the moon’s gravity field with unprecedented precision to unlock hidden secrets about the moons interior composition, determine if it possesses an inner core, and yield a [...]

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Happy New Year 2012

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