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50 Years Ago Today
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Where is the Moon’s South Pole?
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A View from the Moon
This shot of the Earth rising over the Moon’s landscape was taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Click the image to embiggen it.
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A Visualization of the Earth and Sun Seen From The Moon’s South Pole
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Shadows Near the Moon’s South Pole
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Moonscapes
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Looking Toward Home
This shot of the Earth rising over the Moon’s landscape was taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Click the image to embiggen it.
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What Apollo 13 Saw
These animations uses data obtained by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter depict views of the lunar surface that would have been visible to the crew of Apollo 13 during its one turn around the Moon, starting with earthset and sunrise and concluding with the time Apollo 13 reestablished radio contact with Mission Control. Also depicted is the path of the free return trajectory around the Moon and a continuous view of the Moon throughout that path. The animations don’t run in real-time but has been sped up for this short video.
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Moon Wrap
This animation using data taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter illustrates how color and displacement maps are used in 3D animation software to paint and model an object like the Moon.Image Credit: NASA Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio
What Buzz Aldrin Saw
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Beresheet Impact Site
The Israeli lunar lander Beresheet impacted at too high a velocity for a safe landing. The images for this before and after comparison of the landing site were taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The dates in the lower left indicate when the images were taken. It appears the spacecraft landed from the north on the rim of a small crater, leaving a dark smudge on Mare Serenitatis that’s elongated towards the south.
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Craters
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Moonlight
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A Tour of the Moon
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The Moon, 360
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100 Lunar Days: Part Two
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100 Lunar Days—Part One
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Frost on the Moon?
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Earthrise
This shot of the Earth rising over the Moon’s landscape was taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Click the image to embiggen it.
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Tycho’s Central Peak
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been at work for five years. In celebration of those five years, the LRO project asked the public to select a favorite orbiter image of the moon for the cover of a special image collection. After two weeks of voting, this image of Tycho Central Peak was the winner. The Tycho Central Peak rests inside an impact crater and showcases a breathtaking view of the lunar landscape.
The crater’s central peak complex is about 15 km wide in this view. The Tycho crater is about 82 km in diameter. The central peak’s summit rises 2 km above the crater floor.
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Get Ready For The Eclipse
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The Moon’s North Pole
NASA has created the largest high resolution mosaic of the Moon’s north polar region using images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbit. The 2-meter-per-pixel images cover an area equal to more than one-quarter of the United States.
A large version of the map has been posted at http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/gigapan. At that site you can zoom in and out, and pan around an area. The map mosaic was constructed from 10,581 pictures and provides enough detail to see textures and subtle shading of the lunar terrain. Consistent lighting throughout the images makes it easy to compare different regions.
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The Moon is Ready for Its Closeup
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Taking the Moon for a Spin
The Moon’s rotation is tidally locked in it’s orbit about the Earth so that we always see the same side facing us. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has mapped the Moon, and that data has been used to generate this video of what the lunar surface would look like from an orbit around the Moon.
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