NASA Releases Video Footage of GRAIL's Final Moon Shots

Posted on January 11, 2013

NASA activated the camera about one of its GRAIL twins to take some final photographs before the satellites were intentionally crashed into a mountain on the moon last month.

The spacecraft was about six miles above the northern hemisphere of the moon's far side when the images were taken. Take a look:

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