CU-Boulder to build $6 million instrument for NASA lunar orbiter
Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 03:56
in Astronomy & Space
The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded a $6 million grant from NASA to build a high-tech lunar dust detector for a 2011 mission to orbit the moon and conduct science investigations of the dusty lunar surface and its atmosphere.
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