Two NASA probes go into lunar orbit
• The RawStory.com The second of two NASA lunar probes on a mission to study the Moon’s
inner core went into orbit as planned, the US space agency said.
The second Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL-B) will join GRAIL-A which reached lunar orbit on Saturday, according to officials at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Scientists hope the two probes will allow them to better understand the origins of planets.
“NASA greets the new year with a new mission of exploration,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a statement.
“The twin GRAIL spacecraft will vastly expand our knowledge of our moon and the evolution of our own planet,” he said.
“We begin this year reminding people around the world that NASA does big, bold things in order to reach for new heights and reveal the unknown.”
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