On this day in 2011 - September 10th - NASA launched the the two small spacecraft GRAIL A (Ebb) and GRAIL B (Flow).

The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mapped the gravitational field of the Moon in unprecedented detail.


Mona Evans
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