Menu Close

Video from the dark side of the moon

A camera aboard one of NASA’s twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft has captured its first vision of the far side of the moon,

In the video, the north pole of the moon is visible at the top of the screen as the spacecraft flies toward the lunar south pole. The clip ends with rugged terrain just short of the lunar south pole.

GRAIL consists of two identical spacecraft, recently named Ebb and Flow, both of which are equipped with a MoonKAM.

Read more at NASA

Want to write?

Write an article and join a growing community of more than 182,400 academics and researchers from 4,942 institutions.

Register now