(PhysOrg.com) -- This image of the Apollo 11 landing site captured from just 24 km (15 miles) above the surface provides LRO's best look yet at humanity’s first venture to another world. When Neil Armstrong took his ...
Space Exploration
Mar 8, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Arizona State University team that oversees the imaging system on board NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has released the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 sites, ...
Space Exploration
Sep 6, 2011
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The public can follow along with NASA on its journey of lunar discovery. On March 15, the publicly accessible Planetary Data System will release data sets from the seven instruments on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Space Exploration
Mar 15, 2010
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A month after LROC's first image of the Apollo 11 landing site was acquired, LRO passed over again providing the LROC instrument a new view of the historic site.
Space Exploration
Oct 1, 2009
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After a four and a half day journey from the Earth, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully entered orbit around the moon. Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., confirmed the ...
Space Exploration
Jun 23, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two NASA spacecraft will reach major mission milestones early Tuesday morning as they approach the moon -- one will send back live streaming imagery via the Internet as it swings by the moon, the other will ...
Space Exploration
Jun 22, 2009
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NASA has spotted a small new crater on the Moon that was likely caused by a Russian probe crash landing on the surface around two weeks ago.
Space Exploration
Sep 3, 2023
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NASA's LRO—the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter—spacecraft has imaged a new crater on the moon's surface that is likely the impact site of Russia's Luna 25 mission.
Planetary Sciences
Aug 31, 2023
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When astronauts set off for a trip around the moon in 2024 with NASA's Artemis II mission, they will go primed with knowledge of lunar landmarks gathered by one of the Agency's premiere robotic missions to our nearest cosmic ...
Space Exploration
Aug 29, 2023
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The ispace HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander was launched on Dec. 11, 2022, a privately funded spacecraft planned to land on the lunar surface. After a several-month journey to the moon, the spacecraft started a controlled ...
Space Exploration
May 24, 2023
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