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The spot on the lunar surface where NASA intentionally crashed its twin gravity-mapping moon probes
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Dec. 17) has been named after the late Sally Ride, America's first woman in space
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Ebb and Flow, slammed into a crater rim near the moon's north pole at 5:28 p.m. EST (2228 GMT)
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f Sally Ride, who played a key role in Grail's education and outreach efforts
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Ride had led Grail's MoonKAM project, which allowed schoolkids around the world to select lunar sites for Ebb and Flow to photograph
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Twin GRAIL Moon Probes Ebb and Flow Start Lunar Gravity Science Mission
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have just begun their science mission and will use a precision formation-flying technique to map Lunar Gravity
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science mapping phase officially began Tuesday (March 6)
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there is still a lot we don’t know about the Moon says Zuber, like why the near side is flooded with magma and smooth and the back side is not smooth and completely different.
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formation-flying spacecraft will make detailed science measurements from lunar orbit with unparalleled precision to within 1 micron – the width of a human red blood cell
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MoonKAMs on both Ebb and Flow were turned on Monday, March 5, and all appears well
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Bozeman 4th graders will have the opportunity to target the first images a week after our science operations begin
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