NASA LAUNCHED A NEW LUNAR MISSION

NASA LAUNCHED

A NEW LUNAR MISSION

US space agency NASA Saturday,10^th September,2011, launched a new lunar mission that will enable scientists to better understand the moon's gravitational field and the lunar interior from crust to core.Near-identical Grail-A and Grail-B -- short for Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory -- blasted off at 9.08 a.m. (1308 GMT) aboard a Delta II heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Xinhua reported.The two craft will journey to the moon for more than three months, and enter a lunar orbit one after the other around New Year's Day.
The mission is relatively short in duration - just 90 days once the two spacecraft reach the orbit.

                                                                      Prof. John Kurakar