Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera

Exciting New Images from The LROC Team.

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On and Around Mons Piton

09 May 2019

Mons Piton rising above Mare Imbrium — Mons Piton rises 2300 meters above the dark volcanic rocks of Mare Imbrium. The image covers an area 15.5 kilometers wide, north is up, and the Sun shines from the east (right). LROC NAC image pair M190609650LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

The West Side of Plato Crater

18 Jan 2019

The west side of Plato

Von Kármán Crater: Awaiting A Visitor

02 Jan 2019

LROC WAC mosaic of Von Karman crater — Von Kármán crater (186 kilometer diameter), a treasure house of geologic landforms! LROC Wide Angle Camera mosaic, five degree latitude and longitude grid [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Another Eclipse!

26 Jul 2018

WAC mosaic during 2010 eclipse — LROC WAC mosaic centered at 22.0°N and 277.5°E showing the Earth's shadow during a partial lunar eclipse on June 26, 2010. It takes LRO two hours to orbit the Moon so only during one orbit was the spacecraft in the full shadow, or umbra. The mosaic is 240 km wide. [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Towering Peak

15 Jun 2018

8000 meter tall peak — The summit of the unnamed peak in the foreground (50.2° S, 236.6° E) has an elevation of 6710 meters, about 7000 meters of relief relative to the low point at the bottom of the image. The two peaks on the horizon, 200 kilometers in the distance, have summit elevations of 4320 meters and 4680 meters, respectively and both rise more than 6000 meters above their surroundings. West-to-east view across the eastern portion of the South Pole-Aitken basin, NAC M1211426555LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Hawke Crater

03 May 2018

Hawke crater — Hawke crater, 13.2 km wide, is noticeably tilted because the impactor - an asteroid or a comet - that excavated it struck the sloping inner wall of Grotrian crater. Visible are light-colored rays that attest to the crater's youth, as well as subtle signs of darker impact melt. Image width is about 20 km, -66.61 lat, 128.65 lon. Image number M1258054744. [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]

Lunar Light Plains: The Movie

19 Apr 2018

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]

Mountains of the Moon: Zeeman Mons

19 Nov 2017

Zeeman Mons

The History of Volcanism in the Moon's Largest Basin

02 Nov 2017

A view of the Moon's largest impact feature, the South Pole–Aitken basin, so named because it stretches between Aitken crater and the south pole. The orthographic projection here centered on the basin (53°S, 191°E) highlights how much of the lunar farside was affected by this ancient impact event. A new study investigates the duration of volcanism within the basin [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

NAC Anaglyph: Tsiolkovskiy Crater Terrace

11 Aug 2017

A portion of the terraces that make up the southeastern wall of Tsiolkovskiy Crater. The "rough and tumble-down" appearance of the wall conveys the dynamic processes involved in impact cratering events of this magnitude [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

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