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• LRO Spies Apollo 17 Site by Tom's Astronomy Blog on Nov 3, 2009

  The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this look at the landing site for Apollo 17. If you click the image above you will get a larger version of the image. You can see an enlargement of the Challenger Descent Stage and the immediate area by cl...

• Rock and Roll by Tom's Astronomy Blog on Oct 21, 2009

  The LROC or the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, has taken some remarkable images here is one of them. This image shows a crater called Metius B.  Metius B is a small crater “newly formed” on the edge of the much larger crater Metius. I have...

• LRO Temperature Maps by Tom's Astronomy Blog on Sep 23, 2009

  The Diviner instrument aboard the LRO made day and night temperature maps of the moon and that information has been released by NASA. It’s truly amazing!  Especially the low temperature maps, you see that purple color near the south pole?  That r...

• LRO Begins Work by Tom's Astronomy Blog on Sep 18, 2009

  The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has completed its calibration phase and is now starting the mapping mission. During the calibration the camera on the LRO, called the LROC, took the image above of the southern region of the moon, and it actuall...

• A Young Crater by Tom's Astronomy Blog on Sep 12, 2009

  The LRO took this image of a young crater in the moon’s Balmer basin. The dark lines are impact melt splashes made during the crater formation. Here is the caption from the LRO website written by Mark Robinson, ASU: When you look at the moon,...

• Apollo 12 Landing Site by Tom's Astronomy Blog on Sep 4, 2009

  The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) got this image of the Apollo 12 landing site.  The image is about 900 yards wide. I was going to write a bit on Apollo 12 and what they did but NASA’s site where I got the image has one of the better short bi...

• The Far Side of the Moon by Tom's Astronomy Blog on Aug 11, 2009

  Wow! Check out this view from the LRO of of the crater Tsiolkovskiy located on the far side of the moon. No, contrary to a some what common belief, the far side of the moon is not always shrouded in darkness. Here’s the LRO caption: The farsid...