Tom and Jerry GRACE the Moon

[von Tom (Tom)]

I was doing a timelapse video of the Moon tonight and noticed a pair of satellites on the video aftwerwards. I looked up Calsky and found that they were the Gravity Recovery Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites 1 and 2 (nicknamed Tom and Jerry). Here is the annotated video:

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Here are links to the main sites:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Grace/index.html
http://grace.jpl.nasa.gov/
http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/

Thanks for looking,

Tom

[Adelastro1 (Wayne England)]

Nice accidental framing of the moon there!

[Derek Klepp]

A parallel satellite conjunction.Nice capture Tom

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Great one! (two)

[von Tom (Tom)]

Thanks guys. This one made LPOD for yesterday - the Lunar link being that these satellites have a similar function to the GRAIL satellites orbiting the Moon.

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Neat capture there Tom A unique image, and not one easily repeated. Well done!