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NASA: Reaches for New Heights – Greatest Hits Video

January 25, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Video Caption: At NASA, we’ve been a little busy: landing on Mars, developing new human spacecraft, going to the space station, working with commercial partners, observing the Earth and the Sun, exploring our solar system and understanding our universe. And that’s [...]

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New Video Shows the GRAIL MoonKAM’s Final Looks at the Moon

January 10, 2013

As a fond farewell, here are some of the final images taken by the GRAIL MoonKAM educational cameras on board Ebb and Flow, the twin spacecraft for the mission. This footage was shot just three days prior to when the mission ended with the planned impacts on a rim of a crater near the lunar [...]

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End of Mission: GRAIL Spacecraft Impact a Mountain on the Moon

December 18, 2012

The planned path of the GRAIL spacecrafts’ final orbit. Credit: NASA “So long, Ebb and Flow, and we thank you,” said GRAIL project manager David Lehman of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory after the twin GRAIL spacecraft completed a planned formation-flying double impact into the southern face of 2.5-kilometer- (1.5-mile-) tall mountain on a crater rim [...]

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Endgame: GRAIL Spacecraft to Slam into Lunar Crater Rim on December 17

December 14, 2012

The GRAIL mission will come to a dramatic end on Monday as the two spacecraft will be commanded to crash into the rim of an unnamed crater near the Moon’s north pole. This is all according to plan, as the two spacecraft are running out of fuel after being in lunar orbit since New Year’s [...]

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One Spacecraft Captures Another in Lunar Orbit

December 13, 2012

This is awesome! It is the first footage of one orbiting robotic spacecraft taken by another orbiting robotic spacecraft at Earth’s moon. “Flow,” one of two satellites making up NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, captured this video of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) as it flew by at a distance of about [...]

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