# GRAIL Impacts the Moon

This animation shows the last three orbits of the Ebb and Flow spacecraft, with views of the impact site. The impact occurs on the night side of a waxing crescent Moon, so the view shifts from a natural color Moon to a false-color elevation map.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2012
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GRAIL_Impacts_the_Moon.ogv)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/23266340?play=1)