MoonKAM Looks Homeward This image of the far side of the lunar
surface, with Earth in the background, was taken by the MoonKAM
system onboard the Ebb spacecraft as part of the first image set
taken from lunar orbit from March 15 – 18, 2012. A little more
than half-way up and on the left side of the image is the crater
De Forest. Due to its proximity to the southern pole, DeForest
receives sunlight at an oblique angle when it is on the
illuminated half of the Moon. MoonKAM (Moon Knowledge Acquired
by Middle school students), is led by Sally Ride, America's
first woman in space, and her team at Sally Ride Science, in
collaboration with undergraduate students at the University of
California in San Diego. Over 2,700 schools in 52 countries have
signed up to participate in MoonKAM. NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., manages the GRAIL mission for
NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, is home to the
mission's principal investigator,