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GRAIL

GRAIL

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Designed: November 2023

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The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) comprised two identical spacecraft named Ebb and Flow. (The names were chosen in a competition won by 4th grade schoolkids from Emily Dickinson Elementary School in Bozeman, Montana.)

Launched on September 10, 2011 aboard a Delta II (7920H-10) rocket, Ebb and Flow flew in formation and measured changes in distance between them down to one micrometre to map the Moon’s gravitational field and determine its inner structure.

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The gravity map produced from GRAIL’s data is a funkily colourful affair, the appearance of which I’ve tried to recreate in half of the base. Hopefully it looks like the map is being created in the wake of the spacecraft. Well, that’s the idea, anyway.

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