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Standing on the Rim of Aristarchus Crater
- 4 Jan 2012
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A 'straight down' view of Aristarchus, Aristarchus crater.. Small white arrows indicate approximate corners of the NAC panorama. Vertical line on right shows LRO orbit ground track.

West wall of Aristarchus crater seen obliquely by the LROC NACs from an altitude of only 26 km. Scene is about 12 km wide at the base.

Click here to zoom and pan the full-resolution panoramic view of Aristarchus Crater.

"Have you ever you looked up at the bright, cavernous Aristarchus Crater on the Moon through a telescope or binoculars and wondered what it would be like to stand on the rim and peer inside? Spectacular new views from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is almost as good as being there, and a new video lets you “rappel” down and take a closer look at the west side of the crater walls."

via universetoday.com
New High Resolution Global Topographic Map of Moon
- 24 Nov 2011
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- 23November11 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Maps Moon Topography
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LRO Camera Team Releases High Resolution Global Topographic Map of Moon

"The science team that oversees the imaging system on board NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has released the highest resolution near-global topographic map of the moon ever created.

This new topographic map, from Arizona State University in Tempe, shows the surface shape and features over nearly the entire moon with a pixel scale close to 100 meters (328 feet). A single measure of elevation (one pixel) is about the size of two football fields placed side-by-side."

via nasa.gov
New Glimpse of Lunar North Pole
- 16 Sep 2011
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- 15September11 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Moon Photographs
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"The space agency NASA created the new image by stitching together slices of 983 wide-angle photographss snapped by a camera on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO. The image contains a psychedelic spiral in the center because the LRO collected the images from different angles over the course of a month."

via wired.com
Apollo 17 Site : A Sharper View
- 14 Sep 2011
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- 13September11 Apollo 17 Astronomy Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Moon
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"This view of the Apollo 17 landing site in the Taurus-Littrow valley was captured last month by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), the sharpest ever recorded from space. The high resolution image data was taken during a period when LRO's orbit was modified to create a close approach of about 22 kilometers as it passed over some of the Apollo landing sites. That altitude corresponds to only about twice the height of a commercial airline flight over planet Earth. Labeled in this image are Apollo 17 lunar lander Challenger's descent stage (inset), the lunar rover (LRV) at its final parking spot, and the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) left to monitor the Moon's environment and interior. Clear, dual lunar rover tracks and the foot trails left by astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt, the last to walk on the lunar surface, are also easily visible at the Apollo 17 site."

via apod.nasa.gov
Sunrise Over Tycho
- 4 Jul 2011
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"The crater’s 1.24-mile-high central peaks, photographed June 10 by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, barely protrude halfway up into the hole left by the impact. They weren’t made by rock bouncing upward. Instead, liquefied rock at the crater’s rim sagged inward immediately after the impact and pushed up the central peaks.
Surveyor 7 is the only U.S. spacecraft to land nearby. After touching down on the crater’s outer rim, it used a TV camera to beam back the first from-the-ground images of the monotone wasteland."

via wired.com

Standing on the Rim of Aristarchus Crater

New High Resolution Global Topographic Map of Moon

New Glimpse of Lunar North Pole

Apollo 17 Site : A Sharper View

Sunrise Over Tycho

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