Students Nationwide To Exhibit NASA Spacecraft Lunar Images

May 31, 2012

Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726
dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov

Jia-Rui Cook/DC Agle
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-354-0850 / 818-393-9011
Jia-rui.c.cook@jpl.nasa.gov
agle@jpl.nasa.gov

Amy Duncan
Sally Ride Science, San Diego, Calif.
858-254-7009
amy@sallyridescience.com



MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-099

STUDENTS NATIONWIDE TO EXHIBIT NASA SPACECRAFT LUNAR IMAGES

WASHINGTON -- Media representatives are invited to see middle-school
students and their teachers demonstrate science lessons and highlight
selected images provided by twin NASA spacecraft studying the moon
from crust to core. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to noon,
Friday, June 1, 2012, at the Ronald Reagan Building and International
Trade Center located at 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW in Washington.

The event showcases an education and public outreach project called
MoonKAM (Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students). MoonKAM
provides students around the world an opportunity to identify and
choose images of the moon's surface using small cameras aboard NASA's
Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. To date,
thousands of images of lunar targets have been selected by fifth- to
eighth-grade students.

MoonKAM is operated by Sally Ride Science in collaboration with
undergraduate students at the University of California in San Diego.
Sally Ride, CEO of the science education company and America's first
woman in space, will host the event and provide opening remarks.

Participants include:
-- Lori Garver, NASA deputy administrator, Washington
-- Maria Zuber, GRAIL principal investigator, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

For information about MoonKAM, visit:

https://moonkam.ucsd.edu

For more information about GRAIL, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/grail


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