Let the kids fly it
GRAIL carried a camera on each spacecraft with one purpose: to let middle-school students, not scientists, choose what to photograph. A classroom picked a target, the request went to a mission operations center in San Diego run by Sally Ride's team, and the spacecraft turned and took the shot. More than 2,700 schools in 52 countries flew it. Pick one of the real first-week targets below and downlink the actual frame.
Task the spacecraft to receive an image.
Both images you can receive here are real MoonKAM frames from the first week of student imaging in March 2012. They are the only two that survive in NASA's public library; the full classroom gallery once lived at images.moonkam.ucsd.edu and is now offline. The program was led by Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. When the mission ended, GRAIL's crash site was named for her.
