U.S. successfully launched a lunar probe - Asian Reporter

September 8, 2013 07:08

MOSCOW, Sept. 8 / Asian Reporter /. Rocket “Minotaur-5″ with a lunar probe LADEE NASA successfully launched from Baikonur on Wallops Island on the east coast of the United States. Broadcast launch was on the NASA site.

Minotaur V rocket was created corporation Orbital. It was her first mission beyond low Earth orbit from the spaceport at Wallops Island. The device LADEE, in turn, will have to explore the lunar atmosphere and dust particles from the surface.

After 30 days LADEE will go into lunar orbit to collect all the necessary materials for the study. This will help professionals explore similar to the moon’s tenuous atmosphere of Mercury and other space objects.

lunar atmosphere, which is trillions of times thinner than Earth’s atmosphere, the called the exosphere. Such an exosphere, according to recent data, there are around Mercury, and many satellites of the giant planets.

The unit will change its altitude above the lunar surface, locking in a gravitational field changes associated with the occurrence of uneven rocks.

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