GRAIL: Mapping the Moon’s Interior

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zuber, M. T. (Editor), Russell, C. T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Physics.; Planetology.; Space sciences.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.

In September 2011, the GRAIL mission launched two unmanned spacecraft to the Moon, which entered into lunar orbit on December 31, 2011 and January 1, 2012. They orbited the Moon until December 17, 2012, when they impacted the surface near the Moon’s north pole. This book contains three review articl...

Table of Contents:

• Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL): Mapping the Lunar Interior from Crust to Core
• The Scientific Measurement System of the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Mission
• The Lunar Gravity Ranging System for the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Mission.