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Lunar Exploration to Begin

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2013 — NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) has entered its planned orbit around the moon’s equator and is ready to begin collecting science data about our only natural satellite. LADEE entered orbit on Nov. 20 and now orbits the moon about every two hours at an altitude of eight to 37 miles above the surface, NASA said. Its unique position at the equator allows the small probe to make frequent passes from lunar day to lunar night, providing a full scope of the changes and processes occurring within the moon’s tenuous atmosphere. For about 100...Read full article

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    Published: November 2013
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    spectrometer
    A kind of spectrograph in which some form of detector, other than a photographic film, is used to measure the distribution of radiation in a particular wavelength region.
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