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LADEE Encapsulated in the Fairing
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Engineers at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia prepare to encapsulate the LADEE spacecraft into the fairing of the Minotaur V launch vehicle nose-cone. Credit: NASA/Wallops/Terry Zaperach ----- What is LADEE? The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is designed to study the Moon's thin exosphere and the lunar dust environment. An "exosphere" is an atmosphere that is so thin and tenuous that molecules don't collide with each other.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineLADEE Encapsulated in the Fairing. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001392.
