LEGO Designer:
Adam Wilde (Apollo 110)
Designed:
November 2023
Categories:
All, Moon, Probes and Satellites, Space Agency - NASA
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.
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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Launch History information from space.skyrocket.de
Launch History information from space.skyrocket.de
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