Sentences with phrase «mapping lunar gravity»

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Maps of the moon generated from gravity data gathered by the GRAIL spacecraft include three previously undiscovered lunar basins, Bartels - Voskresenskiy, Copernicus - H and Asperitatis.

Over the past decade, NASA has sent the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the Moon; the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite to crash land near the south pole in search of water; the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory to plumb the Moon's gravity field; and the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study its tenuous outer atmoGravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory to plumb the Moon's gravity field; and the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study its tenuous outer atmogravity field; and the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study its tenuous outer atmosphere.

Mexico's Chicxulub crater, named for a tiny town nearby, looks strikingly similar to Schrödinger crater on the moon's far side, shown here in a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter gravity map.

The Horizon Lunar Colony Map will be added to the game soon, in addition to the new low gravity Arcade mode and Custom Game option.