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Image of the Day: September 2011

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GRAIL to the Moon

Credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
Thursday, September 1, 2011: At Cape Canaveral in Florida, half of the clamshell-shaped Delta payload fairing closes around NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory spacecraft. Scheduled to launch September 8, 2011, the two spacecraft will fly in tandem orbits around the moon for several months to measure its gravity field.

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