Images Featured Sites Quickmap Videos Gigapan Exhibits Exciting New Images from The LROC Team. Total posts from Color 30 Search Looking Over the Orientale Basin Indian Ocean as seen from lunar orbit (2015-12-10 06:00:29.202 UTC). NAC high-resolution monochrome image merged with WAC lower-resolution color observations. North is to the left, Antarctica to the right, Australia at the top, and Africa at the bottom (E1204366496L, M1204365627C [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]). Published on 07 Apr 2023 "Oceanus Procellarum Base Here - The Eagle Has Landed" In 1969, NASA published a map showing candidate Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites. The map was based on photographs taken using large Earth-based telescopes. The map above, based on an LROC global image mosaic, is a near-copy of that historic map. Red dots represent the five candidate Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites as of February 1968. Yellow circles represent the final three Apollo 11 target sites. The green circle marks Site 2, the Apollo 11 prime site in Mare Tranquillitatis, where the Lunar Module Eagle actually landed [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 09 Aug 2019 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] Published on 03 May 2018 Color of the Lassell Massif A shock of color on the Moon! The Lassell Massif (a so-called "red spot") in Mare Nubium appears orange in the center of this WAC color composite image. The image was derived by assigning red to 689 nm, green to 415 nm, and blue to 321 nm images. The image was enlarged by a factor of two for viewing here (the original data was sampled to 400 m per pixel); north is up. Image is 190 km across. [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 12 Sep 2016 Looking Over The Limb The Earth straddling the limb of the Moon, as seen from above Compton crater. The large tan area in the upper right is the Sahara desert, and just beyond is Saudia Arabia. The Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America are visible to the left. WAC E1199291151C (Earth only), NAC M1199291564LR (Earth and Moon); sequence start time 12 October 2015 12:18:17.384 UTC [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 18 Dec 2015 Resolved Hapke Parameter Maps LROC Wide Angle Camera (WAC) color composite mosaic of the Moon, photometrically normalized using new Hapke parameter maps. Red: 689 nm, green: 415 nm, and blue: 321 nm band; latitude 55°S to 55°N, longitude -68.6° to 41.4°E. Published on 28 Sep 2014 Stopped In Its Tracks Color-shaded relief image of a tongue-like flow formed from Orientale ejecta near Buffon crater (centered at 227.320°E, 45.849°S). Image shows a portion of the NAC DTM "Buffon", downsampled and cropped for web-browsing. Elevations range from -3468 (purple) to -3104 meters (red), measured from the average lunar radius [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 11 Feb 2014 A Colorful History of Floor-Fractured Komarov A small, fresh crater dots the wall of a fracture in the floor of Komarov crater. Image taken from LROC NAC frame M130653607. Image width is approximately 2.5 km [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 23 Jan 2014 Chang'e 3 Lander and Rover From Above LROC NAC view of the Chang'e 3 lander (large arrow) and rover (small arrow) just before sunset on their first day of lunar exploration. LROC NAC M1142582775R, image width 576 m, north is up [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 30 Dec 2013 That's a Relief A color coded shaded relief map of a symmetrical mountain located in Mare Ingenii and centered at 35.969°S, 164.497°E. This peak is approximately 2.5 km in diameter and 230 meters tall. The colors represent elevation; high elevations are red, and low elevations are blue [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 01 Oct 2013 Prev 1 2 3 Next ← Previous Next → Displaying Post 1 - 10 of 30 in total
