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NASA GRAIL Returns First Student-Selected Moon Images
Image of the far side of the lunar surface, with Earth in the background, taken by the MoonKAM system onboard the Ebb spacecraft as part of the first image set taken from lunar orbit March 15-18, 2012.
Credit: NASA/Caltech-JPL/MIT/SRS
One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera. Fourth grade students from the Emily Dickinson Elementary School in Bozeman, Mont., received the honor of making the first image selections by winning a nationwide competition to rename the two spacecraft.
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