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NASA Spacecraft Orbits the Moon on New Year's Eve (SPACE.com)
This story was updated at 5:02 p.m. EST.
The first of two gravity-mapping NASA spacecraft entered into orbit around the moon today (Dec. 31), marking a New Year's arrival in a mission that will study Earth's nearest neighbor from crust to core.
After three months of spaceflight, the Grail-A probe fired its main engine at 4:21 p.m. EST (2121 GMT) today in a 40-minute manuever to enter lunar orbit (Dec. 31), according to NASA officials. The spacecraft's twin, Grail-B, is slated to follow tomorrow (Jan. 1) at 5:05 p.m. EST (2205 GMT).
"Burn complete! #GRAIL-A is now orbiting the moon and awaiting the arrival of its twin #GRAIL-B on New Year's Day," officials from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. confirmed via Twitter.
After gradually circling down to super-low orbits, the pair will zip around the moon in tandem, working together to map the lunar gravity field in unprecedented detail, researchers said.
Scientists expect the probes' measurements to help unlock some longstanding mysteries about the moon's composition and evolution ? mysteries that remain unsolved despite more than 100 missions to the moon over the years.
"You might think that, given all of these observations, we would know what there is to know about the moon," Grail principal investigator Maria Zuber, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told reporters Wednesday (Dec. 28). "Of course that's not the case."
The moon's many secrets
Scientists think the moon formed after a Mars-size body struck Earth about 4.5 billion years ago. This titanic impact blasted huge amounts of material into space, and they eventually coalesced.
While this basic outline of the moon's origin is pretty well established, many mysteries remain about how the rocky body has evolved since then.
Chief among these puzzles, perhaps, is why the near side of the moon ? the face we always see from Earth ? is so different from the far side. For example, plains of volcanic rock (called maria) are much more widespread on the near side, and the far side is higher and more mountainous, with the lunar surface 1.2 miles (1.9 kilometers) higher in elevation, on average, than the near side.
"We don't actually know why the near side and far side of the moon are different," Zuber said. "We think that the answer is locked in the interior."
One possible explanation, proposed by researchers this August, is that the gigantic collision 4.5 billion years ago actually created two moons. The second moon, which was much smaller, later slammed into our moon's far side, the idea goes, spreading itself over the surface rather than creating a crater.
The Grail probes' observations could help determine whether that scenario is accurate, researchers said.
"We believe that we can obtain the information that we need to test this hypothesis," Zuber said.
Formation flying
The $496 million Grail mission (short for Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory) launched Sept. 10. The two washing-machine-size probes then spent more than three months making their slow, circuitous way to the moon.
By comparison, NASA's manned Apollo 11 mission in 1969 reached the moon in three days. But Apollo 11 prioritized speed, while Grail's path is energy-efficient and has given engineers ample time to assess the probes' health and charge up their scientific gear, researchers said.
Grail-A and Grail-B still have some work to do from their initial lunar orbits to get into position. They'll spend two months circling lower and lower, eventually settling into orbits just 34 miles (55 kilometers) above the lunar surface by March.
Only then will the twin spacecraft begin their science campaign. They'll chase each other around the moon for 82 days, staying 75 to 225 miles (121 to 362 km) apart. [Video: Grail's Mission to Map Moon Gravity]
Regional differences in the lunar gravity field will cause the two spacecraft to speed up or slow down slightly, changing the distance between them as they fly. Bouncing microwave signals back and forth off each other, Grail-A and Grail-B will gauge these tiny distance variations constantly.
The Grail team will use the twin probes' measurements to construct highly detailed maps of the moon's gravitational field. These maps are expected to reveal a great deal about lunar composition, allowing scientists to draw insights about how the moon formed and how it has changed over time, researchers said.
Public outreach and education are a big part of Grail's mission as well. Each spacecraft is carrying four cameras and will snap photos of the lunar surface at the direction of middle-school students across the country. Students will get to pore over these pictures after they're beamed back down to Earth.
The photo project ? which is called MoonKam and is run by former NASA astronaut Sally Ride ? has already generated lots of enthusiasm. More than 2,100 schools have signed up to participate, according to Zuber.
"We've had a great response to the MoonKam project," Zuber said. "We're still accepting applications. We can accommodate another several hundred schools into the program if there's interest in doing that."
You can follow SPACE.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter: @michaeldwall. Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcom?and on Facebook.
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
NKorea calls Kim Jong Un 'supreme leader' (AP)
PYONGYANG, North Korea ? North Korea declared Kim Jong Il's son and successor "supreme leader" of the ruling party, military and the people during a memorial Thursday for his father in the government's first public endorsement of his leadership.
Kim Jong Un ? head bowed and somber in a dark overcoat ? stood watching from a balcony at the Grand People's Study House overlooking Kim Il Sung Square, flanked by the top party and military officials. Also on the balcony was Kim Jong Il's younger sister, Kim Kyong Hui, who is expected to play a guardian role for her young nephew.
Given Kim Jong Un's inexperience and age ? he is in his late 20s ? there are questions outside North Korea about whether he is equipped to lead a nation engaged in sensitive negotiations over its nuclear program and grappling with decades of economic hardship and chronic food shortages.
But support among North Korea's power brokers was unequivocal at the memorial service, attended by hundreds of thousands of people filling Kim Il Sung Square and other plazas in central Pyongyang.
"The fact that he completely resolved the succession matter is Great Comrade Kim Jong Il's most noble achievement," Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, told the massive audience at the Kim Il Sung Square.
"Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un is our party, military and country's supreme leader who inherits great comrade Kim Jong Il's ideology, leadership, character, virtues, grit and courage," said Kim, considered North Korea's ceremonial head of state.
Life in Pyongyang came to a standstill as mourners packed the plaza from the Grand People's Study to the Taedong River for the second day of funeral ceremonies for the late leader.
Kim Jong Il, who led his 24 million people with absolute power for 17 years, died of a heart attack Dec. 17 at age 69, according to state media. He inherited power from his father, North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, who died of a heart attack in 1994, in what was the communist world's first hereditary succession.
Attention turned to Kim Jong Un after he was revealed last year as his father's choice among three sons to carry the Kim dynasty into a third generation.
The process to groom him was rushed compared to the 20 years Kim Jong Il had to prepare to take over from his father, and relied heavily on Kim family legacy as guerrilla fighters and the nation's founders.
Kim Jong Un was made a four-star general last year and appointed a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the ruling Workers' Party. Since his father's death, state media have bestowed on him a series of new titles signifying that his succession campaign was gaining momentum: Great Successor, Supreme Leader and Sagacious Leader.
Kim Jong Un's leadership is not expected to become formal until top party, parliamentary and government representatives convene to confirm his ascension.
He is expected to formally assume command of the 1.2 million-strong military, and become general secretary of the Workers' Party and chairman of the party's Central Military Commission, said Yoo Ho-yeol, a professor at Korea University in South Korea.
In a speech during the memorial, Gen. Kim Jong Gak, a top political officer in the Korean People's Army, said the military will dedicate itself to protecting Kim Jong Un, calling him the "supreme leader of our revolutionary armed forces."
This week's events have been watched closely for clues to who in the military and Workers' Party will form Kim's inner circle of trusted aides during the sensitive transition to leadership.
During the mourning period, Kim made at least five visits to his father's begonia-bedecked bier when the late leader was lying in state at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, accompanied at times by the old guard that is expected to support him.
At Wednesday's funeral procession, he was accompanied by Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong Il's brother-in-law and a vice chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission, who has family ties to the military and is expected to be crucial in giving his nephew guidance.
On Thursday, North Koreans packed the main square as well as the plaza in front of a Workers' Party monument of a hammer, sickle and writing brush.
They bowed their heads as eight artillery guns fired; military officers removed their hats while the booms resonated across the square.
North Korea's senior officials, including Kim Jong Il's sister, Kim Kyong Hui, stood in silence on the platform during the gun salute.
Workers, citizens, children and soldiers across the country then bowed for three minutes of tribute to Kim Jong Il as trains and boats blew their sirens.
State TV showed people lined up neatly in rows, or outside their places of work, on sidewalks, in squares, beneath giant portraits of Kim Jong Il.
His two other sons, Kim Jong Nam and Kim Jong Chol, were not spotted at either the funeral or memorial.
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Associated Press Korea bureau chief Jean H. Lee and writers Hyung-jin Kim, Foster Klug and Sam Kim in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report. Follow AP's North Korea coverage at twitter.com/newsjean, twitter.com/APKlug and twitter.com/samkim_ap.
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NY Rangers postgame transcript from Washington D.C. with quotes from John Tortorella, Martin Biron, Ryan McDonagh, Brian Boyle
WASHINGTON - The Rangers applied pressure in the third period Wednesday night while trailing the Capitals, 3-1, but when Ryan Callahan appeared to have narrowed the deficit, replays showed he had kicked in the rebound of a Brad Richards shot from the point, and the goal was disallowed.
It was the right call, but it also pushed the Blueshirts power play to one-for-its last 16, and 0-for-8 in two games since the Christmas break.
Richards, one of the captains of that lifeless power play, registered four shots on goal in 19:32 of ice time, but he was a minus-three and committed that crucial turnover that led to Alexander Semin's goal to make it 3-1 in the second period. Not only that, but check out this stat: since Richards' fluky backhanded goal in the final second of a 3-2 win in Phoenix on Dec. 17, Richards has zero points. Five games, zero points.
Before John Tortorella gave his morning skate interview at the Verizon Center on Wednesday, he stopped in the hallway to talk to Richards, who was standing near one of the workout bikes with Ryan Callahan. Tortorella spoke to Richards for about 30 to 45 seconds, appearing to instruct him on strategy for the night's game. It was a constructive, back-and-forth conversation between a few of the team's leaders and veterans. But clearly, whatever message was delivered then did not sink in at game time.
The Blueshirts also have fallen into second place in the Eastern Conference, after Boston defeated Phoenix, 2-1, in a 9 p.m. start. The Bruins now have 49 points, one more than the Rangers.
The Blueshirts will practice at the Kettler Capitals Iceplex in Arlington, Va. on Thursday afternoon before flying to Fort Lauderdale for Friday's game in Sunrise, Fla. against the Panthers. In the meantime, here are the postgame quotes from Wednesday's 4-1 loss to the Caps:
RANGERS POSTGAME TRANSCRIPT ? JOHN TORTORELLA, RYAN McDONAGH, MARTIN BIRON, BRIAN BOYLE
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JOHN TORTORELLA
On whether he was disappointed with the defensive effort: ?I wouldn?t say it?s defensive. I?d say it?s some brain-dead plays at our blue line as far as turnovers. It?s unfortunate with Del Z, he loses the puck there on the first one. But a turnover by Mitch and turnover by Richie, not against their third or fourth line, against their top line. It kills us. That?s what?s frustrating. I thought we beat ourselves a little bit there in those situations. They?re an opportunistic team. They don?t want to defend. They want nothing to do with it. So what do we do. We don?t allow them to defend on those plays and they go score goals and they get rolling. That?s where they gained their momentum. So that?s what?s frustrating.
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RYAN McDONAGH
On what turned the momentum, whether it was lack of puck discipline: ?Yeah I think we definitely wanted some plays back in the second period there. They were coming with good speed. A couple times they catch us and they made us pay for it. We?ve had great goaltending and they can only do so much when you keep giving them breakaways and odd-man rushes, especially with this team they?re gonna score. We didn?t protect the puck as well as we wanted to, but I thought we kept with it in the third period and gave it a good effort there.?
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On whether allowing Caps get out on rush was the difference between this loss and the win in November: ?Yeah, that?s the thing. That team?s got a lot of talent and speed and they thrive on transition game. Tonight we didn?t get pucks in when we needed to or were trying to look for something prettier, caught out there in shifts, especially on the second it was a long chance. We got pinned in our zone a couple times, and they made us pay.?
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BRIAN BOYLE
On whether Rangers got away from their trademark forecheck/dump and chase: ?You want to be able to make plays. We want to grind them down, that?s what?s made us successful. We?ve done a pretty good job of that, but sometimes you make mistakes. This was a good team. They countered on us pretty good. But our main focus is we don?t want to give the puck away. You want to make them take it from us, putting it in good areas so we can get it back. It?s not like we didn?t do it at all tonight. We had some really good shifts. In the first period we did a pretty good job of that. But if you let them bring it like that, if it ends up turnovers and they score, we?ve got to come back and score, and we obviously didn?t. We had our chances. It?s frustrating.
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On not scoring on McDonagh?s rebound midway through the third period with a bouncing puck: ?Well sure it?s bouncing but I?ve got to put that in. We?re supposed to be NHL players and I should handle that. It?s tough. When I got back to the bench, I was pissed. Tried to come back and we got a couple more chances after that, but ??
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On earning time on the power play: ?Yeah, we?re just trying to play the same way. If we take care of the puck, we had a big responsibility tonight trying to stop that (Ovechkin) line. I turned one over in the D zone, we had a little mishap in the neutral zone, stuff like that. One mistake will kill you. But like I said, I had a chance to make a big play and it?s hard not to get frustrated. You want to stay positive. It?s been a while. It?s tough. I accept that. That?s a lot of responsibility and if I?m going to play these minutes, I want to score. I feel like I?m going to though. We kept coming and kept having shifts. I?m not saying my confidence is sky-high right now offensively, but I?m just trying to keep it positive and I should have buried that.?
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On earning more minutes even though he?s not scoring: ?When they?re not going in, you can?t give ?em up.?
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MARTIN BIRON
On what shifted the momentum: ?Obviously little things in the game will make a difference. We all know as a team what those little things were tonight. I?m sure the coaching staff knows. We?ve just got to have the attitude that the little bit of room that we gave their top line, we?ve just got to be careful in the next games, because those are big points and big guys that you?re playing against. You?ve got to be able to control the play against a line like that. So they were able to come back and get a couple good goals and that really made the difference in the second, when we couldn?t sustain the pressure that we had in the first period.?
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On his own performance: ?Right now, it?s extremely disappointing, knowing that we come in here and this was a big opportunity for us to get a couple points and we just needed to ? I don?t know. It?s just disappointing when you?re gonna chew on that for a little bit here. But tomorrow you?ve got to forget about it. And that?s probably the attitude you?ve got to have.?
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Friday, December 30, 2011
On the Radio Tonight!
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I was invited to do a short interview on ?Why Do We Say ?I?m Not Sick? When We?re Really Sick? with 1013 Main Street, a broadcast in Seoul, Korea. The program is hosted by?Ahn Junghyun, who was the former presenter for the Pyeongchang Olympic Bidding Committee and the main host for the B20 Seoul Summit held last year. My segment will air tonight! If you?d like to listen, you can do so here at 10:00 9:00 PM EST (21:00:00 EST). Just click on the orange radio in the upper left hand corner. (I?ll also try to post the mp3 file if possible or point you toward the podcast once it?s available).
Stay well!
About the Author: Krystal D'Costa is an anthropologist working in digital media in New York City. You can follow AiP on Facebook. Follow on Twitter @krystaldcosta.More??
The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.
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