LRO
Moon Crash Plume Visible to Spacecraft But Not Earth Telescopes
Nine science instruments on board the LCROSS spacecraft captured the entire crash sequence of the Centaur impactor before the spacecraft…
LRO Spots Apollo 14 Booster Crash Site on Moon
[/caption] Speaking of lunar impacts: While we await the science data from the LCROSS mission impact earlier this morning, the…
LRO Provides Flashback to 1966
[/caption] On June 2, 1966 the Surveyor 1 spacecraft soft landed on the Moon, the first US spacecraft to set…
LRO Takes Second, Closer Look at Apollo 11 Landing Site
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera has taken a second look at the Apollo 11 landing site. These images were taken…
First Science Data from LRO; ‘Tantalizing’ Hints of Water
[/caption] The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has successfully completed its testing and calibration phase and is now in its science and…
LRO, Chandrayaan-1 Team Up For Unique Search for Water Ice
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and India's Chandrayaan-1 will team up on August 20 to perform a Bi-Static radar experiment to…
Apollo Landing Sites Pose a Threat to LRO Instrument
[/caption] The recent images released by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter of the Apollo landing sites are truly remarkable. But there…
LRO Images Apollo Landing Sites (w00t!)
[/caption] As anticipated, NASA released images of the Apollo landing sites taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The pictures…
LRO Hi-Def Lunar Flyover Movie
The folks at Goddard Space Flight Center working on the the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission have put together a flyover…
First Images from LRO
[/caption] Woohoo! NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken its first images of the Moon! There are two cameras on board…