Page 6 December 27, 2012 TORRANCE TRIBUNE Looking Up Grail Lunar Impact Site Named for Astronaut Sally Ride By Bob Eklund the GRAIL mission, which was NASA’s predictions of fuel needs for future missions. when NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter NASA has named the site where the first planetary mission to carry cameras fully “Ebb fired its engines for four minutes, three returns images of the area in several weeks. twin Ebb and Flow spacecraft impacted the dedicated to education and public outreach. seconds and Flow fired its for five minutes, Launched in September 2011, Ebb and Flow Moon on December 17 in honor of the late Ride, who died in July 2012, led GRAIL’s seven seconds,” said GRAIL project manager had been orbiting the Moon since January 1, astronaut, Sally K. Ride, who was America’s MoonKAM (Moon Knowledge Acquired by David Lehman of JPL. “It was one final 2012. The probes were intentionally crashed first woman in space and a member of the Middle School Students) Program through her important set of data from a mission that was into the lunar surface because they did not have GRAIL mission team. company, Sally Ride Science, in San Diego. filled with great science and engineering data.” enough altitude or fuel to continue science On December 14, Ebb and Flow, the Along with its primary science instrument, The mission team deduced that much of the operations. Their successful science missions two spacecraft comprising NASA’s Gravity each spacecraft carried a MoonKAM camera material aboard each spacecraft was broken up generated the highest resolution gravity field Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) that took more than 115,000 images of the in the energy released during the impacts. Most map of any celestial body. mission, were commanded to descend into lunar surface. Imaging targets were proposed of what remained probably is buried in shallow Images: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news. a lower orbit that would result in an impact by middle school students from across the craters. The craters’ size may be determined php?release=2012-401• three days later on a mountain near the Moon’s country, and the resulting images were north pole. The formation-flying duo hit the returned for them to study. The names of the lunar surface as planned at a speed of 3,760 twin spacecraft were selected by Ride and the mph (1.7 kilometers per second). The location mission team from student submissions in a of the Sally K. Ride Impact Site is on the nationwide contest. southern face of an approximately 1.5-mile-high “Sally Ride worked tirelessly throughout mountain near a crater named Goldschmidt. her life to remind all of us, especially girls, to “Sally was all about getting the job done, keep questioning and learning,” said Senator whether it be in exploring space, inspiring the Barbara Mikulski of Maryland. “Today her next generation, or helping make the GRAIL passion for making students part of NASA’s mission the resounding success it is today,” science is honored by naming the impact site said GRAIL principal investigator Maria Zuber for her.” of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Fifty minutes prior to impact, the spacecraft in Cambridge. “As we complete our lunar fired their engines until the propellant was mission, we are proud we can honor Sally depleted. The maneuver was designed to Ride’s contributions by naming this corner determine precisely the amount of fuel of the Moon after her.” remaining in the tanks. This will help NASA The final flight path for NASA’s twin GRAIL mission spacecraft to impact the moon on Dec. 17. GRAIL’s MoonKAM is the signature education The impact marked a successful end to engineers validate computer models to improve and public outreach program led by Sally Ride Science-founded by Dr. Sally Ride, America’s first woman in space. Photo courtesy of NASA. A Student’s Perspective On School Fundraisers By Glen Abalayan, in planning fundraisers and another change the one percent that kills you.” It is common the downward spiral of the group’s morale. Torrance High Student in the public’s attitude towards those events. knowledge to not invest in something one does For any fundraiser to be successful, there Fundraisers are the main source of income There are a number of pitfalls some clubs not know about and the failures of some events must be a change in both parties. For clubs, this for clubs and classes in high school. The mistakenly succumb to when it comes to is simply this common sense put into practice. can be in the form of a reformatted approach outcome of these events determines the groups’ fundraising. One of these is the lack of Likewise, the public’s view of such events towards fundraising, while the public needs future activities, such as dances and banquets. effective communication between the event also needs to change. A perfectly planned to change their perception of fundraisers. A Unfortunately there has been a gradual decline planners and the public. Clubs rely too much fundraiser will still be considered a failure if successful change by both the clubs’ leaders of interest in school fundraisers, thus leaving on cliché publicity by focusing too much students do not participate in it, as its success and the public will ensure the successful the clubs dependent on them in a financial time in making posters and not enough time relies on the amount of people who choose outcome of any fundraiser. Clubs can only crisis. This is evident in clubs whose string actually selling their product to the general to go. There are an increasingly unfortunate reap what they sow. An event’s success is of failed fundraisers caused them to be in a audience. This crucial gap of information is amount of students who remain apathetic dependent on both sides’ cooperating with the gloomy economic position. There needs to be what prevents the public from participating. about their club’s financial outlook. 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