NASA Missions Let Scientists See Moon's Dancing Tide From Orbit

NASA Missions Let Scientists See Moon's Dancing Tide From Orbit
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2014 - Scientists combined observations from two NASA missions to check out the moon's lopsided shape and how it changes under Earth's sway - a response not seen from orbit before. The team drew on studies by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been investigating the moon since 2009, and by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, mission. Because orbiting spacecraft ... more

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