Fwd: [New post] NASA’s Twin GRAIL Spacecraft Create Highest Resolution Gravity Map Of The Moon

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Date: December 6, 2012 7:01:57 AM CST
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Subject: [New post] NASA's Twin GRAIL Spacecraft Create Highest Resolution Gravity Map Of The Moon

Mike Killian posted: "[caption id="attachment_28076" align="aligncenter" width="500"] This image depicting the porosity of the lunar highland crust was derived using bulk density data from NASA's GRAIL mission and independent grain density measurements from NASA's Apollo moon " New post on AmericaSpace NASA's Twin GRAIL Spacecraft Create Highest Resolution Gravity Map Of The Moon by Mike Killian For well over a year now two washer-machine sized twin spacecraft have been orbiting the moon, carrying out NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission, also known as GRAIL.  The twin spacecraft, named Ebb and Flow, have since created a high resolution gravity field map of the moon, revealing to scientists its internal structure and composition [...] Read more of this post Mike Killian | December 6, 2012 at 8:01 am | Tags: Ebb and Flow, GRAIL, gravity field map, Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, JPL, Lunar, Moon, NASA | Categories: astronomy, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, CCAFS, Discovery, Education, Exploration, GRAIL, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, Mike Killian, Moon, NASA, News, satellite, Science, Space Exploration, Tech, Technology, Uncategorized, USA | URL: http://wp.me/p1YCNG-7iP Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.americaspace.org/?p=28075