Images Featured Sites Quickmap Videos Gigapan Exhibits Exciting New Images from The LROC Team. Total posts from Apollo 76 Search Mount Marilyn: A Lunar Love Story Mount Marilyn, with its distinctive triangular shape, served as an important navigation landmark for the Apollo 11 astronauts. Portion of LROC Wide Angle Camera mosaic, 138 km wide [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 21 Dec 2018 Lunar Beauty The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera imaged this bright young ray crater (3.13˚N, 281.07˚E) on 3 November 2018 — just three weeks ago. The Sun shone from the west (left, 48˚ incidence angle). This image covers an area 8.1 kilometers across. NAC image M12959100LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 20 Nov 2018 John Young at South Ray Crater Overhead view of South Ray crater, the most prominent feature at the Apollo 16 Descartes landing site in the central lunar highlands. Astronaut John Young landed Lunar Module Orion north of the crater on 21 April 1972 (UTC). Image is a little less than one kilometer wide and is centered at 9.1493°S, 15.3827°E. Image number M1149402618LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 05 Jul 2018 South Massif Landslide By lunar standards South Massif is a relatively modest mountain, but with a rich history (geologic and exploration). The massif is about 7000 meters across at the base and 2300 meters tall; M1266925685LR, incidence angle 33°, slew angle 65°, phase angle 104° [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 08 Jun 2018 Curiously Fast Degradation of Small Lunar Craters Taurus-Littrow valley, geologic exploration target for Apollo 17 and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera study team led by Dr. Prasun Mahanti. Center latitude 20.15°N, center longitude 30.98°E, image 18 km wide, image M1182232465LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 24 Apr 2018 Lunar Light Plains: The Movie The Orientale Basin, about 950 kilometers wide, is the striking multi-ringed impact feature at lower right. New research suggests that the impact event that formed Orientale may have emplaced light plains deposits - visible here in green - over a large portion of the lunar surface. Image width: 3475 kilometers (the width of the Moon) [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University] Published on 19 Apr 2018 'Shaping' Lunar Science with Vector Data Twenty new shapefiles created by the LROC Team are now available! A few of the shapefiles shown here include mare age units, footprints of digital terrain models (DTMs), and the locations of small geologic features such as irregular mare patches (IMPs) and lobate scarps [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 18 Jul 2017 Spacecraft Related Coordinates - 2016 Update Luna 17, the intrepid lander that carried the Lunokhod 1 rover to the surface. You can make out the rover's tracks around the lander, the tight circles were formed as the Earth-bound drivers tested out the maneuverability of their just released rover. LROC NAC image M175502049RE [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 25 Nov 2016 Regolith Porosity from Orbit Apollo 11 photograph of boot-print in the lunar regolith (cropped version of AS11-40-5878). Published on 08 Jun 2016 Mt. Marilyn: Navigating to the Surface NAC mosaic of Mt. Marilyn, a key navigation landmark during the Apollo 11 Moon landing, scene is 30 km wide. Published on 04 Jan 2016 Prev 1 2 3 4 5 … 8 Next ← Previous Next → Displaying Post 11 - 20 of 76 in total