Lunar surface

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91Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter / Unmanned spacecraft / Moon / Apollo 14 / Apollo Lunar Module / Apollo 11 / Spaceflight / Apollo program / Exploration of the Moon

LRO and the Apollo-11 Landing Site The NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched in 2009, will be able to see details on the lunar surface at much higher resolution than any previous lunar mapping mission. The i

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Source URL: spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov

Language: English - Date: 2009-07-19 08:16:36
92Moons / Planemos / Lunar craters / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter / Geology of the Moon / Victoria quadrangle / Spaceflight / Planetary science / Moon

LRO Determines Lunar Cratering History The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter used millions of measurements of the lunar surface to establish the history of cratering on the surface. Problem 1 - The diameter of the moon is 3,

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Source URL: spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov

Language: English - Date: 2010-09-27 10:16:56
93Exploration of the Moon / Unmanned spacecraft / Moons / Planemos / Space Shuttle / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter / Spaceflight / Spacecraft / Space technology

Mare Nubium and Las Vegas The LRO satellite recently imaged the surface of the moon at a resolution of 1.4 meters/pixel. The above 700-meter wide image shows Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada (Top - Courtesy of Digital Globe,

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Source URL: spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov

Language: English - Date: 2009-07-15 14:27:52
94Exploration of the Moon / Planemos / Shackleton / Lunar south pole / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter / LCROSS / Faustini / Shoemaker / Spaceflight / Moon / Spacecraft

LRO Makes a Temperature Map of the Lunar South Pole The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has recently created the first surface temperature map of the south polar region of the moon using date taken between September

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Source URL: spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov

Language: English - Date: 2010-10-25 10:40:04
95Astronomy / Planetary geology / Lunar science / Planetary science / Moons / Planemos

LRO Explores Lunar Surface Cratering The LRO satellite recently imaged the surface of the moon at a resolution of 1.4 meters/pixel. The above image shows a region near the Apollo-11 landing site. The Lunar Module (LM) c

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Language: English - Date: 2009-07-19 14:04:48
96Exploration of the Moon / Discovery program / Moons / Planemos / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter / Meteorite / Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory / Geology of the Moon / Deep Impact / Spaceflight / Spacecraft / Space technology

Grail Creates a New Crater on the Moon On December 17, 2012 each of the twin Grail spacecraft ended their lunar mapping missions by crashing into the lunar surface. The

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Source URL: spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov

Language: English - Date: 2014-01-29 15:36:32
97Astronomy / Moon / Lunar Orbiter program / Lunar science / Planetary geology / Planetary science / Lunar craters / Tycho

Craters on the Moon - I 9 This is a NASA image taken by the Lunar Orbiter IV spacecraft as it captured close-up images of the lunar surface in May, 1967. The large crater at the top-center is Tycho. Other images from th

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Language: English - Date: 2012-10-16 09:47:22
98Unmanned spacecraft / Exploration of the Moon / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter / Satellite imagery / Moon / Image resolution / SELENE / European Southern Observatory / GeoEye / Spaceflight / Spacecraft / Space technology

A High-Resolution Satellite Photo The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will take photographs of the lunar surface at a resolution of 0.5 meters per pixel. The 425x425 pixel image below (Copyright © 2009 GeoEye) was ta

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Source URL: spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov

Language: English - Date: 2009-07-19 08:11:26
99Lunar science / Moon / Moons / Planemos / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter / Apollo 15 / Apollo 11 / Geology of the Moon / Lunar craters / Spaceflight / Apollo program / Exploration of the Moon

LRO - The Relative Ages of Lunar Surfaces We have all sees pictures of craters on the moon. The images on the next two pages show close-up views of the cratered lunar surface near the Apollo 15 and Apollo 11 landing area

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Source URL: spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov

Language: English - Date: 2013-01-07 12:30:54
100Space / Lunar science / Apollo program / Lunar and Planetary Institute / Luna programme / Lunar water / NASA / Moon landing / Lunar meteorite / Spaceflight / Moon / Exploration of the Moon

Lunar Diary: a chronicle of Earth’s journey through space and time, as seen from the Moon Clues to the history of the Earth, the Milky Way and the Universe are hidden on the lunar surface.

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Source URL: www.scienceinschool.org

Language: English - Date: 2014-10-08 08:50:52
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