{"id":81827,"date":"2012-12-19T01:15:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T17:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-confirms-grail-satellites-crash\/"},"modified":"2012-12-19T01:15:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T17:15:43","slug":"nasa-confirms-grail-satellites-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-confirms-grail-satellites-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Confirms GRAIL Satellites Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: NASA, Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, Satellite Collision<\/p>\n<p>Publication Date: 12\/18\/2012<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/634061main_pia13966-43_946-710.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>Artist\u2019s depiction of the twin spacecraft (Ebb and Flow) that comprise NASA\u2019s Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: NASA\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>NASA<\/strong> announced it has successfully crashed its two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) twin satellites into the moon. The new crater created by the impact was named after Sally Ride, the first American woman in LEO. <\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft were commanded to descend into a lower orbit to force the impact against a mountain near the moon\u2019s north pole with the objective of collecting internal structure and composition data about the moon. The exact size of the Sally Ride Impact Site won\u2019t be known until the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter flies above it in a few weeks. <\/p>\n<p>The GRAIL mission\u2019s two satellites, Ebb and Flow, orbited the moon for almost a year, transmitting more than 115,000 images of its surface. According to NASA, the mission provided the highest-resolution gravity field map of any celestial body, and it will take a few years to analyze all the data the mission gathered. <\/p>\n<p>As the satellites\u2019 fuel tanks emptied, GRAIL operators decided to get something more out of the end of the mission. The coordinated crash now brings new opportunities to study what makes up the crust of the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: NASA, Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, Satellite Collision Publication Date: 12\/18\/2012 Artist\u2019s depiction of the twin spacecraft (Ebb and Flow) that comprise NASA\u2019s Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. Image credit: NASA NASA announced it has successfully crashed its two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) twin satellites into the moon. The new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}