thumb|Photo annotation featuring lunar impact crater Seleucus |left '''GRAIL MoonKAM (Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students)''' was part of NASA’s GRAIL satellite mission to map the Moon’s gravity.<ref name=moonkam>{{cite web|title=About GRAIL MoonKAM |url=https://moonkam.ucsd.edu/about/moonkam |website=Sally Ride Science |accessdate=20 April 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518212843/https://moonkam.ucsd.edu/about/moonkam |archivedate=18 May 2015 }}</ref>
The twin GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) satellites orbited the Moon from December 2011 to December 2012. The data they sent back deepened our understanding of the Moon’s gravity and interior composition.<ref>{{cite news | title=GRAIL: Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory | url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/grail/main/ | website=NASA|accessdate=20 April 2015}}</ref>
GRAIL was NASA’s first planetary mission with instruments fully dedicated to education and public outreach. The MoonKAM program was also created to teach schoolchildren. Cameras aboard the GRAIL satellites took thousands of photographs during the mission.<ref name=moonkam/>
==History== In March 2012, the GRAIL MoonKam was created. It lasted until December 2012.<ref name=moonkam /><ref>{{cite news|title=GRAIL Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) |url=https://moonkam.ucsd.edu/about/grail |website=Sally Ride Science |accessdate=20 April 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151007054039/https://moonkam.ucsd.edu/about/grail |archivedate=7 October 2015 }}</ref> The Sally K. Ride Impact Site was created by the GRAIL MoonKam.<ref>{{cite news | title=NASA's GRAIL Lunar Impact Site Named for Astronaut Sally Ride | url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/grail/news/grail20121217.html | website=NASA | accessdate=20 April 2015 | archive-date=16 May 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170516231356/https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/grail/news/grail20121217.html | url-status=dead }}</ref>
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==External links== * https://web.archive.org/web/20150423110436/https://moonkam.ucsd.edu/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20150525212032/http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/grail/missionoverview.cfm
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