A New (Man-made) Crater on the Moon!
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) has identified the final resting place of the Beresheet lander. As you may remember, the SpaceIL spacecraft successfully entered lunar orbit on April 4, […]
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PDS: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Data
The NASA Planetary Data System is pleased to announce a new delivery of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) data for the following instruments: CRaTER, DLRE, LEND, LOLA, and LROC. This release […]
AGU 2016 SESSION P017: LUNAR AND RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER – SEVEN YEARS AT THE MOON
We invite contributions to an AGU session highlighting recent work using LRO data. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13940 In over seven years of operation, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has returned a vast quantity of data […]
NASA Missions Let Scientists See Moon’s Dancing Tide From Orbit
Scientists combined observations from two NASA missions to check out the moon’s lopsided shape and how it changes under Earth’s sway – a response not seen from orbit before. The […]
NASA’s LRO Snaps a Picture of NASA’s LADEE Spacecraft
With precise timing, the camera aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was able to take a picture of NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft as it orbited […]
NASA Images of Chang’e 3 Landing Site
Chang’e 3 landed on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) just east of a 450 m diameter impact crater on 14 December 2013. Soon after landing, a small rover named Yutu […]
NASA Releases New Earthrise Simulation Video
NASA has issued a new visualization of the events leading to one of the iconic photographs of the 20th Century – Earth rising over the moon captured by the crew […]
PDS Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Data Release
The NASA Planetary Data System is pleased to announce a new delivery of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) data for the following instruments: CRaTER, DLRE, LAMP, LEND, LOLA, and LROC. In […]