GRAIL MoonKAM (Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students) was part of

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’s GRAIL satellite mission to map the Moon’s gravity. The twin GRAIL (

Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) was an American lunar science mission in NASA's Discovery Program which used high-quality gravitational field mapping of the Moon to determine its interior structure. The two small spacecraf ...

) satellites orbited the Moon from December 2011 to December 2012. The data they sent back deepened our understanding of the Moon’s gravity and interior composition. GRAIL was NASA’s first planetary mission with instruments fully dedicated to education and public outreach. The MoonKAM program was also created to teach schoolchildren. Cameras aboard the GRAIL satellites took thousands of photographs during the mission.

History

In March 2012, the GRAIL MoonKam was created. It lasted until December 2012. The Sally K. Ride Impact Site was created by the GRAIL MoonKam.

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External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20150423110436/https://moonkam.ucsd.edu/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20150525212032/http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/grail/missionoverview.cfm Moon NASA programs