Showing posts with label Professor leads NASA mission's effort to map moon's surface temperatures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Professor leads NASA mission's effort to map moon's surface temperatures. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Professor leads NASA mission's effort to map moon's surface temperatures

When NASA launches the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a yearlong unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire moon, later this month, UCLA's David Paige will be leading its Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, which will perform the first global survey of the temperature of the lunar surface as the spacecraft orbits some 31 miles above the moon.When NASA launches the Lunar Reconnaissance