Thursday, July 2. 2009

2Jul

Ready for LROC commissioning operations

 Announcements

The LROC Science Operations Center (SOC) team is ready for commissioning imaging to begin once instrument bakeout is complete!

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Posted by Samuel Lawrence in Announcements at 15:00

Thursday, July 2. 2009

2Jul

First LROC Images!

 Featured Image

Full resolution detail from one of the first LROC NAC images. At this scale and lighting, impact craters dominate the landscape. Two general types of impact craters are readily identifiable. Solitary craters which most likely represent a single impact event, and clusters or chains of small, fresh craters produced by the impact of lunar material excavated by a larger impact. Image width is 1400 meters, north is down [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
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Posted by Samuel Lawrence in Featured Image at 11:21
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