NASA releases new moon pics requested by students
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft in orbit around the moon has sent back five dozen new images of the lunar surfaceincluding a view of the far side with Earth in the distance.
Don't thank scientists for it. Fourth-graders from Emily Dickinson Elementary School in Bozeman, Mont., directed the spacecraft to snap pictures as part of a project headed by Sally Ride, the first American woman in space.
The images were returned earlier this week.
Twin NASA probes entered lunar orbit over the New Year's weekend on a mission to study the gravity field. During non-critical parts of the mission, select students get to choose camera targets.
The Montana students got first dibs for winning a NASA-sponsored contest that renamed the craft Ebb and Flow.
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