NASA's Discovery program picks lunar gravity mission

NASA's Discovery Program will fund the launch in 2011 of a pair of gravity probes to measure the structure of the moon from lunar orbit. Like the twin Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) spacecraft orbiting Earth, the two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) orbiters will...

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