[meteorite-list] [meteorite-list) Electric park?

From: Dennis <astroroks_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 21:30:39 -0800
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Hello, Gang. Quick question: Where is Electric Park? (Tucson)
Dennis

Ron Baalke <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

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>Feb. 1, 2012
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>Dwayne Brown
>Headquarters, Washington202-358-1726
>dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov
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>DC Agle
>Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
>818-393-9011
>agle at jpl.nasa.gov
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>Caroline McCall
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
>617-253-1682
>cmcall5 at mit.edu
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>Whitney Lawrence Mullen
>Sally Ride Science, San Diego
>858-638-1432
>wmullen at sallyridescience.com
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>RELEASE: 12-040
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>NASA SPACECRAFT RETURNS FIRST VIDEO FROM FAR SIDE OF THE MOON
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>WASHINGTON -- A camera aboard one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And
>Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first
>unique view of the far side of the moon. MoonKAM, or Moon Knowledge
>Acquired by Middle school students, will be used by students
>nationwide to select lunar images for study.
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>GRAIL consists of two identical spacecraft, recently named Ebb and
>Flow, each of which is equipped with a MoonKam. The images were taken
>as part of a test of Ebb's MoonKam on Jan. 19. The GRAIL project
>plans to test the MoonKAM aboard Flow at a later date.
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>To view the 30-second video clip, visit:
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>http://go.nasa.gov/zZXAPs
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>In the video, the north pole of the moon is visible at the top of the
>screen as the spacecraft flies toward the lunar south pole. One of
>the first prominent geological features seen on the lower third of
>the moon is the Mare Orientale, a 560 mile-wide (900 kilometer)
>impact basin that straddles both the moon's near and far side.
>
>The clip ends with rugged terrain just short of the lunar south pole.
>To the left of center, near the bottom of the screen, is the 93
>mile-wide (149 kilometer) Drygalski crater with a distinctive
>star-shaped formation in the middle. The formation is a central peak,
>created many billions of years ago by a comet or asteroid impact.
>
>"The quality of the video is excellent and should energize our MoonKAM
>students as they prepare to explore the moon," said Maria Zuber,
>GRAIL principal investigator from the Massachusetts Institute of
>Technology in Cambridge.
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>The twin spacecraft successfully achieved lunar orbit last New Year's
>Eve and New Year's Day. Previously named GRAIL-A and -B, the washing
>machine-sized spacecraft received their new names from fourth graders
>at the Emily Dickinson Elementary School in Bozeman, Mont., following
>a nationwide student-naming contest.
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>Thousands of fourth- to eighth-grade students will select target areas
>on the lunar surface and send requests to the GRAIL MoonKAM Mission
>Operations Center in San Diego. Photos of the target areas will be
>sent back by the satellites for students to study. The MoonKAM
>program is led by Sally Ride, America's first woman in space. Her
>team at Sally Ride Science and undergraduate students at the
>University of California in San Diego will engage middle schools
>across the country in the GRAIL mission and lunar exploration. GRAIL
>is NASA's first planetary mission carrying instruments fully
>dedicated to education and public outreach.
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>"We have had great response from schools around the country, more than
>2,500 signed up to participate so far," Ride said. "In mid-March, the
>first pictures of the moon will be taken by students using MoonKAM. I
>expect this will excite many students about possible careers in
>science and engineering."
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>Launched in September 2011, Ebb and Flow periodically perform
>trajectory correction maneuvers that, over time, will lower their
>orbits to near-circular ones with an altitude of about 34 miles (55
>kilometers). During their science mission, the duo will answer
>longstanding questions about the moon and give scientists a better
>understanding of how Earth and other rocky planets in the solar
>system formed.
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>NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., manages the
>GRAIL mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
>The GRAIL mission is part of the Discovery Program managed at NASA's
>Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Lockheed Martin
>Space Systems in Denver built the spacecraft.
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>For more information about GRAIL, visit:
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>http://www.nasa.gov/grail
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>Information about MoonKAM is available at:
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>https://moonkam.ucsd.edu/
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