About GRAIL MoonKAM
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GRAIL MoonKAM (Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students) is GRAIL's signature education and public outreach program. It is led by Dr. Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, and her team at Sally Ride Science in collaboration with undergraduate students at the University of California San Diego.
GRAIL MoonKAM will engage middle schools across the country in the GRAIL mission and lunar exploration. Tens of thousands of fifth- to eighth-grade students will select target areas on the lunar surface and send requests to the GRAIL MoonKAM Mission Operations Center (MOC). Photos of the target areas will be sent back by the GRAIL satellites and made available in the Images section of this Web site. Students will use the images to study lunar features such as craters, highlands, and maria while also learning about future landing sites. The GRAIL MoonKAM mission will begin in 2012 when the GRAIL satellites are in orbit around the Moon and the dedicated MoonKAM cameras are activated. The mission will last approximately 80 days. |
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About GRAIL
Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) is an information-gathering mission. A spacecraft, launched in 2011, will deploy two satellites (GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B) in lunar orbit to provide in-depth data for scientists to analyze in order to better understand the moon's gravitational characteristics, structure, and history.
Also onboard the spacecraft will be a camera assembly for students that will be used to capture images and video of the moon's surface.
GRAIL is a Discovery Program mission led by MIT professor Dr. Maria Zuber, along with NASA, JPL, Lockheed Martin, MIT and Goddard Space Flight Center.
Also onboard the spacecraft will be a camera assembly for students that will be used to capture images and video of the moon's surface.
GRAIL is a Discovery Program mission led by MIT professor Dr. Maria Zuber, along with NASA, JPL, Lockheed Martin, MIT and Goddard Space Flight Center.
About Sally Ride Science™
Sally Ride Science™ is an innovative science content company dedicated to supporting girls' and boys' interests in science, math, engineering, and technology. Dr. Sally Ride, best known as America's first woman in space, started Sally Ride Science to create programs and publications that bring science to life and show girls and boys (and their parents and teachers) that science is creative, collaborative, fascinating, and fun.