MoonKAM - Education and Public Outreach for NASA's GRAIL Mission

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Dec 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufmed31b0619f&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #ED31B-0619

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[0815] Education / Informal Education

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In September 2011, NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission will launch twin spacecraft in tandem orbits around the Moon to measure its gravity in unprecedented detail. The mission will answer key questions about the Moon's internal structure and give scientists a better understanding of how our solar system formed. The spacecraft will send back information during a three-month “science phase” of the mission from March through May of 2012. As the GRAIL satellites orbit the Moon gathering scientific data, they will also be taking images of the lunar surface. Each satellite will carry four cameras dedicated to MoonKAM (Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students), GRAIL’s signature Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) program. Middle-school students across the country will be able to request and analyze photos of craters, highlands, maria and other lunar features. The MoonKAM images and supporting educational materials will be available for public access on the MoonKAM website, www.GRAILMoonKAM.com. During the MoonKAM mission, we estimate that approximately 4000 middle schools nationwide will take over 20,000 lunar images. An essential part of the MoonKAM E/PO effort is Student Collaboration. Over the course of our E/PO effort, from FY 2009 through 2013, the Student Collaboration Team, UCSD undergraduate students will work directly with GRAIL scientists and engineers to build and operate the system that links middle school classrooms nationwide to the MoonKAM cameras on the GRAIL satellites. We estimate GRAIL MoonKAM will engage approximately 100 undergraduates students over the duration of this effort, giving them direct hands-on experience with a NASA mission and thereby contributing to the development of the STEM workforce.

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